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Joseph Cotterill
@jsphctrl.ft.com

The Disappearers. Had to put it down several times as it brought back, well, memories, but didn’t want it to end. Like an Icelandic saga in how it explores what violence leaves in people. Crazily ambitious. Absolutely book of the year. If Marlon James doesn’t get the Booker I’ll be very surprised.

Joseph Cotterill
@jsphctrl.ft.com

I would guess a lot of people will struggle to keep going with it given the form and themes, but if you do pick up The Disappearers - do keep going. Even Marlon James writing about, say, music is worth the price of admission (it’s the best intertextual novel I’ve read in a long, long time).

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Hetan Shah
@hetanshah.bsky.social

Did you see Get Mille Black on C4? That was very digestible Marlon James. (I found Seven Killings pretty hard going) www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

theguardian.com‘It changed my life’: Get Millie Black, the thrilling Caribbean crime drama shaking up TVBooker prize winner Marlon James is breaking into television with his rave-reviewed cop show. Its creator and star talk wigs, unfinished business – and what it’s really like being queer in Jamaica tod...