REISSUES
Our pick of the paperbacks this issue is the latest by Lauren Beukes, BRIDGE ( , out now, Penguin). Bridge is short for Bridget, who recently lost her mother – a neuroscientist – to cancer. Going through her mum’s effects, she discovers a “dreamworm” in her freezer: a parasite which allows users to hop between realities by taking over the bodies of alternate selves. We said: “Complex, challenging genre fiction with the pace of a thriller: a gripping, thought-provoking and affecting exploration of means, ends and multiple lives.”