Alrightreads: Book II

Richard Herring, Can I Have My Ball Back?: A Memoir of Masculinity, Mortality and My Right Testicle

2022 / Audiobook / 304 pages / UK

****

The sensitive sequel to Talking Cock didn't go with the more obvious title.

Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

2022 / Audiobook / 320 pages / UK

***

An odd blend of formulaic surrealism, the bits he wrote have that distinctive charm.

Tony Hawks, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis

2000 / Ebook / 250 pages / UK

****

Makes my own first-world problems when travelling look almost reasonable.

Michael Reynier, Horthólary: Tales from Montagascony

2015 / Ebook / 340 pages / UK

***

Historical petropunk sci-fi and more conventional sorcery recounted in faux-encyclopaedic detail, complete with maps and teabagged journals.

Fave: 'The Angel of Pessane'

Kit Williams, Untitled

1984 / Ebook / 32 pages / UK

**

Impenetrable even when you know the answer already. The art isn't even especially captivating.