by Michael Collins,
published by Phoenix House, £16.99
designed by Debbie Holmes
QN: It’s a cupboard.
JO: No, it’s an old fridge. It’s sitting in the middle of the street.
QN: The photograph has the feel of a picture library that is trying to be trendy. It has upped the colour contrast and bits of the picture are out of focus.
JO: Absolutely, this picture looks to me like it has not been commissioned. Maybe the story is about a fridge, but it does smell like someone thought: ‘That’s a cool picture, let’s pick that out of the catalogue’. The type is placed in a very boring way, a bit of type at the top and a bit at the bottom.
The Keepers of Truth
Bill is a washed up reporter, working for a dying newspaper in a moribund mid-western town. He has to report the local baking contest, but has grand dreams of composing a requiem to the American dream.
Book synopsis edited from The Guardian.
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