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19 August 2023

9:00 AM

19 August 2023

9:00 AM

Open Up Thomas Morris

Faber, pp.208, 14.99

Thomas Morris has a knack of writing about ordinary things in an unsettling way and unsettling things in an ordinary way. He described his debut collection of ten stories set in Caerphilly, We Don’t Know What We’re Doing, as ‘realism with a kink’. Open Up, a slimmer second offering of five stories, amps up the Kafka.

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