E
very so often a line gets trotted out in comment sections about “Where are all the male writers?” and “You just can’t get published as a man these days”. Normally it just makes Richard Osman and Ian Rankin roll their eyes and we all move on.
But in case you genuinely believe there aren’t enough serious male authors about these days, The Black Eden by Richard T Kelly will reassure you that, along with Graeme Macrae Burnet’s and Ian McGuire’s works, there are still plenty of books about manly men doing manly things in a manly way, in this case, starting Scotland’s oil business.
Fortunately, like those writers, Kelly has the chops. The novel is told through five men we whom meet in the 1950s:
Enjoy unlimited digital access. £1 for 6 months.