Mario Reading

A choice of first novels | 14 May 2015

First novels usually turn out to be fourth or fifth attempts, says Mario Reading. But this latest batch is a cut above average

Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals' author Jesse Armstrong (Photo: Getty)

  • Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals

    Jesse Armstrong

    Cape, pp. 384

  • Mrs Engels

    Gavin McCrea

    Scribe, pp. 240

  • The Glorious Heresies

    Lisa McInerney

    John Murray, pp. 384

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