Two writers I’d never read — Jonathan Buckley and Marti Leimbach — impressed me: Leimbach less for literary style than the documentary quality of her description of taking an autistic child to a birthday party; Buckley for a payoff that jumps, with subtle effectiveness, just the way you don’t expect it to: ‘Not sure if I’ve read this story or made it up. The former, I think.’
The prize, finally, for Most Informative Simile goes to Giles Foden, for a magnificent sentence from a DVD-style alternative ending to his novel Turbulence called ‘(One Last) Throw of the Dice’:
My mind whirs. The separate incidents of the early part of the voyage become melded together in my head like slabs of Pykerete, that curious mixture of ice and wood pulp from which our vessel is made.
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