Tim Martin

Highway to hell

Woods’s chilling tale of a young boy’s car journey with his psychopathic father lodges powerfully in the memory

issue 27 October 2018

  • A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better

    Benjamin Wood

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 368

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