Midland
James Flint
Publisher: Unbound
Summary
James Flint’s first book, Habitus (1998), was widely acclaimed, while his second, 52 Ways to Magic America (2000), won Amazon’s inaugural Writers’ Bursary award. The Book of Ash (2008) won an Arts Council Writers Award.Midland represents the return to form of a promising talent now matured into a seriously readable novelist.James wrote the novel in instalments, performing a new chapter each year at Port Eliot festival.For fans of Capital by John Lanchester, The Northern Clemency by Philip Hencher, Enduring Love by Ian McEwan.