Chris Feik

Sparrow’s Fall By Terry Lane Pan, $12.95 pb, 52l pp ‘What I wanted to do was to write a story that would confront me with a number of incidents requiring moral, philosophical or theological reflection,’ Terry Lane writes in the postscript to this novel. There’s something a little unfashionable about such an aim: most contemporary fiction markets itself in more secular terms. But Lane wa ... (read more)

Incorporating photographs, diagrams, idiosyncratic typography, and even a list of references, Chris Gregory’s Twins is a media kit as much as a short story collection. It beings with a kind of parable about reading: When I was a kid … I thought that one day I would live the kind of life that was described in the books I had read, a life filled with meaningful and thought-provoking conversat ... (read more)