Bookworm, no. 12

Fiction by Chris Hadfield. Non-fiction by Shane Neilson. Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize finalists. Inside the October issue.

Oct 10, 2023

∙ Paid

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…

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