BOOKS
Endland
by Tim Etchells (And Other Stories, ISBN 9781911508700) andotherstories.org
(sic) is not a country – or a book – for the fainthearted. Readers would be well advised to gird their loins before tackling its short stories, packed full as they are with violence, porn, murder, poverty, grief, decay, drugs, despair, radioactive rain, depression, war and death. Each story is a fable seen through a dystopian lens and narrated in a broken, distorted (and poorly spelt) way that cleverly reflects the societal, political and familial breakdown being exposed. Brutal and hard-hitting on their own, when read as a
