Courttia Newland’s A River Called Time is set in an alternate world where many key events that shaped ours haven’t happened.

Trying to write a decolonised novel is like trying to imagine the world without trees – in other words, staggeringly difficult and it’s a testament to Newland’s ambition that A River Called Time achieves as much as it does.

Click here to read Stewart Hotston’s full review, and for our interview with the author, click here.

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