Plume by Will Wiles
I was over the
moon when I heard Will Wiles had written a new novel.
His first two
books, Care of Wooden Floors and The Way Inn, were both instant favourites, despite
being wildly different from each other.
The former was
like an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm written by Magnus Mills; the latter was
pure surrealism, shifting from a satire about business conferences and hotel
chains to something more akin to The Matrix or Christopher Nolan’s Inception.
So I wondered
where on earth would Wiles go with book three. London, as it turns out, where
we see a boozy magazine journalist slowly losing his grip, trapped in a dying
industry while being swallowed up by modern city life.
It’s a relentless
and suffocatingly gripping story that’s perfectly observed, sinister and yet
also wildly witty.
Wiles is a very talented writer who really ought to be more
widely known. I can’t wait to see what he comes up with next.
