Cosmo Adair
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Cosmo Adair
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Excited to have made my first appearance in the Literary Review, with a review of "The Boyhood of Cain", Michael Amherst's debut novel.

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Cosmo Adair - Sorrows of Young Danny
Cosmo Adair: Sorrows of Young Danny - The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst
literaryreview.co.uk
February 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"As much as any novelist I can think of, he was always in the middle of youth, trying to filter its bold vitality through the light of his sentences."

Brilliant essay on Isherwood by Andrew O'Hagan
‘He wasn’t quite a social novelist, except he was. He wanted opposing parts of society to work together in his books, and these novels offer places where public and private life are seen magically to coalesce.’

Andrew O’Hagan on Christopher Isherwood: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andrew O’Hagan · Disguise-Language: Christopher Isherwood’s Artifice
In a way, ​Isherwood was pre-acclimatised to American unreality. ‘He holds the future of the English novel in his...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I make my first appearance in The Times today, reviewing "And He Shall Appear" - a novel featuring Cambridge, lots of champagne, and the occult.

www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
A load of old Bolly — devilry and revelry at Cambridge
‘Dark academia’, outrageous posh boys, the occult … Kate van der Borgh’s debut novel And He Shall Appear is very on trend
www.thetimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM