I don't do God, but I do do dystopias, and I do feast days too. Easter is the best one, because you get a four-day weekend, fish pie and a lamb dinner. I like its mix of sombreness and celebration too ...

Both comforting and devastating, this tale of two discarded toy mice by the Riddley Walker author is a profound little book – the equal, in some ways, to the Alice books, writes Stuart Kelly Week ...

John Wray, chosen in 2007 as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, is the author of three books. His most recent novel is Lowboy. One of the most enduring mysteries I've encountered, both as ...

It begins thus: “On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs”. This is the language of Riddley Walker, the reason why ...

The Folio Society has announced limited edition illustrated reissues of Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban’s science fiction novel first published in 1980. The story is set about 2,500 years in the future, ...

Once “Riddley Walker” gets into your head, it never entirely comes out. You’ll stumble across bits and pieces of it as you roam through the culture, whether it’s the obvious tribute enshrined at the ...

Hoban at work in 1999; one visitor likened his home to a ‘junkyard’, but he was the most focused of writers (JOHN VOOS) From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on ...