Summer holidays are a good time to try out new novels, and among the recommended fiction out this month is Connor Hutchinson’s sharp debut, Dead Lucky (Corsair), which is set in Openshaw, Manchester. In it, Hutchinson tells the story of an embalmer at a funeral home who is drawn into the addictive world of gambling to pay his debts.
The reliably accomplished John Niven’s latest novel is The Fathers (Canongate), a witty account of parenthood and masculinity, while Alexander Starritt’s enjoyable Drayton and Mackenzie (Swift) is a tale of two old acquaintances who reunite by chance to form an unusual alliance.
