Bookworm, no. 12
Fiction by Chris Hadfield. Non-fiction by Shane Neilson. Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize finalists. Inside the October issue.
Wing Ding
The Defector
Chris Hadfield
Penguin Random House
368 pages, hardcover and ebook
Who doesn’t love a good bad review? The heaving broadsides, the pointed zingers, perhaps a splendid twisting of the knife: there’s nothing better. Given my less-than-enthusiastic response to Chris Hadfield’s debut novel, The Apollo Murders, from 2021, I expected to find…




