One of the best books you might not know about this Christmas

This has gone slightly under the radar, but a debut novel by the award-winning literary reviewer Eileen Battersby was released in the last few weeks, and is available now. Titled Teethmarks on my Tongue, and published by Dalkey Archive Press, Battersby’s novel has received some stellar feedback internationally, including by the renowned Kirkus Reviews, Jennifer Johnston and Neil Jordan. This is, we suspect, one of those titles that people will talk about years from now. We would not only get one, we would get a first edition, read it, re-read it, and then keep it very, very safely …