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The Recollections: Fragments From A Life In Writing by Christopher Priest (book review).
Christopher Priest died at 80 in 2024. This is a collection of his non-fiction pieces, assembled and introduced by his third wife, novelist…
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June 2026
July 2023
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Airside by Christopher Priest (book review).
Christopher Priest is one of Britain’s leading literary novelists. Most of the time he flirts with SF, not producing wholly genre novels but…
November 2020
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The Evidence by Christopher Priest (book review).
We return to the enigmatic Dream Archipelago in Christopher Priest’s new novel ‘The Evidence’, the location of many of his novels and short…
December 2018
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An American Story by Christopher Priest (book review).
An American Story by Christopher Priest is my novel of the year, a grabbing, electrifying and chilling read. It’s probably best categorised as…
December 2017
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The Adjacent by Christopher Priest (book review).
I hardly know where to begin in describing Christopher Priest’s ‘The Adjacent’. It’s a multi-stranded novel that alternates the tale of Tibor Tarent,…
August 2017
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The Gradual by Christopher Priest (book review).
Christopher Priest is a very stylish writer. Not only is he able to tell an enthralling story without the verbosity of some modern…
September 2016
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The Gradual by Christopher Priest (book review).
‘The Gradual’ often known as the Grail is the oldest part of the Catholic Mass. It is from the word ‘gradus’, the Latin…
April 2014
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The Islanders by Christopher Priest (book review).
If only I understood the mind of Chris Priest then the secrets of the universe would be all mine. ‘The Islanders’ is another…