Tag: fiction
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#122: ‘Rodney Stone’ by Arthur Conan Doyle
What an odd book! Amongst a lot of research about stagecoach driving and naval procedure there’s an interesting story about a fictional prizefight folded into Arthur Conan Doyle’s Rodney Stone. I think I need to declare early on that this novel represents and echoes aspects of late-Victorian/early-Edwardian literature which have always annoyed me. Most notably…
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#121: ‘The Two Philosophers’ by Irvine Welsh
As mentioned in my previous post about a short fight scene in The Odyssey, I’ve been wondering for a while whether or not to include Irvine Welsh’s short story, ‘The Two Philosophers’, from his short story collection The Acid House. Rereading it today I realised why it came to mind reading Emily Wilson’s translation of…
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#112: ‘Soft Tissue Damage’ by Anna Whitwham
Soft Tissue Damage by Anna Whitwham (Rough Trade Books) is that rare but wonderful thing: a new boxing book to preorder, forget about, and then be surprised by as it falls through the letterbox. This book falls into the category of boxing book which isn’t really ‘about’ boxing, or boxers, promoters, venues, or famous bouts.…
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#71: ‘Corey Fah Does Social Mobility’ by Isabel Waidner
‘Corey Fah Does Social Mobility’ is Isabel Waidner’s fourth novel, and is published by Hamilton Hamish. It’s a bank holiday weekend here in the UK and as a work-free-three-day-treat I thought I’d put down the boxing books (for the first time in two years) and indulge in my previous obsession: Experimental fiction. I’ve been following…
