Claire Nichols visits David in his small office in the Western Australian port city of Fremantle. His latest novel, The Sawdust House, is based upon the life and times of Australia’s first sportsperson of international renown, the boxer known as Yankee Sullivan, who was notorious in the USA and UK during the 1840s and 1850s. Sarah L'Estrange explores the idea of books as friends, books as sources of wisdom and making friends through books with writers Juhea Kim on Beasts of a Little Land, Susan Johnson on From Where I Fell, Paige Clark on She is Haunted and Germaine Leece and Sonya Tsakalakis on Reading the Seasons.ĭavid Whish-Wilson is best known for his Frank Swann series of crime novels. He's just released the second book in this Dark Star trilogy called Moon Witch, Spider King. 31, 2019 The author, most recently, of Black Leopard, Red Wolf admires fantasy fiction that feels wonderfully strange and alarmingly familiar. It’s vulgar and vivacious, big and brutal, full of. After the win, he turned to fantasy, and created his 'African Game of Thrones'. His next novel, Black Leopard, Red Wolf will be published in February 2019. Marlon James Illustration by Jillian Tamaki Jan. Marlon James’ Moon Witch, Spider King, the second novel in his Dark Star trilogy, is a medieval feast of dazzling fantasy.

$154.Jamaican writer Marlon James won the 2015 Booker for A Brief History of Seven Killings. You’re hearing it, smelling it and touching it.”īelow are Marlon James’s favorite books, available to purchase as a set or individually. He is the author of the New York Times-bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction in 2019. “I like books that make me feel like I’m emerging from a fever, like Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomonor Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red. snatched up the film rights to Black Leopard, the first in a projected three-novel cycle. “Literature should be sensual and endlessly sensory,” says James. Jordan’s production company Outlier Society and Warner Bros. Marlon James is the author behind the novels John Crow’s Devil, The Book of Night Women, A Brief History of Seven Killings, which was awarded the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2015, and Black Leopard, Red Wolf, a mesmerizing fantasy that includes necromancers, river witches, conjoined twins, shape-shifting hyenas, eaters of human flesh, trolls, a “very smart” buffalo, a deranged killer monkey and Ekoiye, a “whore who loves civet musk.” Shortly after publication, Michael B. A new Marlon James novel is coming this February.

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