Katya Adaui: Here Be Icebergs [2022] paperback BOOKT In Apt Pupil a golden

In Apt Pupil a golden schoolboy entices an old man with a past to join in a dreadful union

'masculine' when she should be 'feminine'

'You won't believe this novel's creepy twists and turns

and all who threaten the shamanic arts and their practitioners

WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING

Katya Adaui: Here Be Icebergs [2022] paperback BOOKT In Apt Pupil a goldenThe mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories. A family is haunted by a beast that splatters fruit against its walls every night, another undergoes a near collision with a bus on the way home from the beach. Mothers are cold, fathers are absent we know these moments in the abstract, but Adaui makes each as uncanny as our own lives: close but not yet