This novel (Colony by Hugo Wilcken) wouldn’t even be ‘growing’ among the foliage of my bamboo plant (a tenuous link I know), if it weren’t for the evangelising of it by lit blogger John Self. On his Asylum blog, John says:
Colony is an exceptional achievement whose overlooked status is little short of scandalous. If blogs can do one thing, it is to give deserving books like this life beyond their few weeks on the 3-for-2 tables. Having taken up Steve Mitchelmore’s endorsement of it, I can only urge others to do the same, and accept my inchoate view as a recommendation as strong as any I’ve given this year.
Glowing praise indeed, and not to ignore my fellow readers I snapped up a copy at considerable expense to myself (1p plus £2.75 shipping). Quite a hit to the bank balance I know, so here’s hoping John’s opinion holds true, and that Colony does turn out to be the ‘terrific read’ that Mitchelmore first claimed it was.
I’ll let you know my opinion some time in the future
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Nice pic! Thanks for taking up my recommendation Rob. I look forward to hearing your thoughts in due course.
You know, that cover’s almost good… and then it isn’t.