Adrian Turpin

Manne about Town

The Reflection

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Melville House 234pp £14.99 order from our bookshop

Hugo Wilcken’s haunting existential thriller is not so much one reflection as a hall of mirrors, at times dazzling, often a little dizzying. This is a book that flirts openly with its influences, from Kafka and Hitchcock to Paul Auster to 1950s noir.

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