House Of Meetings.

I want stories about the invasion of Czechoslovakia that combine autobiography, history and criticism.

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

I want stories about finding an angel in your garage.

Skellig

I want stories about social imposters in the intra-war years.

The Great Gatsby.

I want stories about studying at the Slade.

Life Class. (This is a bit of a rubbish description of the novel.)

These were all things I read and enjoyed this year without any concern for how optimistic or positive or otherwise they were.

I want stories about social imposters in the intra-war years.

Here is a clue: Dan Hartland.

I want stories about the gulags.

Don’t know.

I want stories about sexual anxiety in the early Sixties.

On Chesil Beach?

I want stories about feminist uprisings in Cumbria.

The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall.

I want stories about the invasion of Czechoslovakia that combine autobiography, history and criticism.

Don’t know, but I want this, too.

I want stories about manly men zooming around space and blowing shit up.

A bit vague. Crystal Rain?

I want stories about young girls ripping the fabric of time and plunging into alternate Londons.

Shadow Web by NM Browne.

I want stories about slaves raised in strange circumstance on the cusp of the Revolutionary War.

Octavian Nothing.

I want stories about shadowy conspricaies involving shopping centres.

Clear Water by Will Ashon.

I want stories about hospitals cut adrift from reality.

Hospital by Toby Litt.

I want stories about finding an angel in your garage.

Pass.

I want stories about guarding the corpse of Myra Hyndley.

That Rupert Thomson one. Death of a Murderer?

I want stories about being abandoned on an Antarctic island with unknown amphibious creatures.

Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Pinol.

I want stories about social imposters in the intra-war years.

Uh … pass.

I want stories about an Alaska that never was.

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union!

I want stories about England quitely slipping into dictatorship.

This should be The Summer Isles, but is probably that Derek Raymond book I can’t remember the title of.

I want stories about studying at the Slade.

No idea.