Courttia Newland heads to alternate history
Small Axe writer Courttia Newland’s new novel A River Called Time is out now from Canongate, and we had a chance to chat about his process, the book’s lengthy development, […]
Small Axe writer Courttia Newland’s new novel A River Called Time is out now from Canongate, and we had a chance to chat about his process, the book’s lengthy development, […]
Small Axe writer Courttia Newland’s new novel A River Called Time is out now from Canongate, and we had a chance to chat about his process, the book’s lengthy development, and the state of the world:
“What I’ve found was that time has, in a sense, caught up to me so what I was doing before, there was no language for it. Well, there was a language for it but it wasn’t common knowledge that that was the language for it. I realised I’d written a decolonised novel and there was a language for it now – and it was in common parlance.”