REISSUES
Pick of the paperbacks this month? Perhaps veteran author M John Harrison’s latest,
THE SUNKEN LAND BEGINS TO RISE AGAIN
( ★★★★☆, out now, Gollancz).
An oblique book, concerned with a lack of connection, it follows two Londoners whose lives become tinged with eldritch, haunted by half-seen ghosts and punctuated by the inexplicable. We said: “Harrison’s in the bleakest of territory here, not passing direct comment on the failings of late-stage capitalism but nevertheless mapping its effects… A deeply unsettling fever dream of a novel.” Temeraire author Naomi Novik’s latest,