Christopher Hart
Modern Manhood
THE NARRATOR OF Tim Lott's fierce new novel begins by ruminating about the opposite sex. Not the 'other' or the 'different' sex, he points out. The opposite. 'As in diametrically opposed.' From then on the tension never lets up.
Daniel Savage is a bedsit-dwelling fortysomething. He works in advertising, and has recently been divorced from a horrendous first wife called Beth. Beth, inevitably, has custody not only of most of his money, but also their six-year-old daughter. With grim determination, Daniel sets about dating again, reeling from evenings of
Sign Up to our newsletter
Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more.@Lit_Review
Follow Literary Review on Twitter
'Walk down your supermarket pet food aisle and you’ll be hard pressed to find a single brand that claims to be made with high-welfare meat. More expensive pet food should not be about spoiling our cats but about sparing the farmed beasts we feed them.'
https://literaryreview.co.uk/meattoo
'Two things prevent [this book] from collapsing under the weight of its own wayward ambition. Colin Jones, one of the finest living scholars of early modern France, is no ordinary historian. And the day in question, 27 July 1794, was no ordinary day'.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/night-of-the-guillotine
The Anatomy of Melancholy 'has never quite become a widely recognised, bona fide "classic". For long stretches, the bulk of its readership has been restricted to bibliophiles and scholars. It has had an air of murkiness and desuetude'.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/phantoms-of-the-mind