Stuart Kelly

Sex, violence and lettuces

Scarlett Thomas’s The Seed Collectors is a clever, chaotic, filthily gorgeous, satirical Aga-saga

  • The Seed Collectors

    Scarlett Thomas

    Canongate, pp. 417

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