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A book trade romp: Sour Grapes, by Dan Rhodes, reviewed

11 December 2021

9:00 AM

11 December 2021

9:00 AM

Sour Grapes Dan Rhodes

Lightning Books, pp.200, 14.99

Dan Rhodes’s career might be regarded as an object lesson in How Not to Get Ahead in Publishing. Our man was chosen as one of the Best of Young British Novelists in 2003, but his recent exploits include a spectacular falling out with his one-time sponsors, Messrs Canongate, and the writing of a lampoon about Richard Dawkins which so alarmed the lawyers that it had to be issued privately.

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