The Abstainer’s countervailing believer, a counterpart to the Swedenborg-spouting sailor in The North Water, is a young man who appears late in the novel, who sleeps “amidst filth, beside ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Midnight. There are field guns on Stanley Street, and timber barricades at every bridge and ...

As an abstainer, I often get disapproving comments like, “It’s not healthy to take such a severe approach” or “It would be better to learn how to manage yourself” or “You should be ...

The sad truth of The Abstainer’s life is that Love Island is so big that you can’t avoid being exposed to it, and whether they like it or not, they are absorbing it through osmosis — it’s ...

As an abstainer, I often get disapproving comments like, “It’s not healthy to take such a severe approach” or “It would be better to learn how to manage yourself” or “You should be ...

The Abstainer, the latest novel by Dr Ian McGuire, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester, was published officially on September 17 2020 by Scribner UK. Set on ...