Joseph BarbonJoseph Barbon

Joseph Barbon is a postgraduate student at Victoria University. He writes fiction and criticism. Joseph was born in Palmerston North in 1995.

The fifth best book of 2017: Milk Island by Rhydian Thomas

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All week this Christmas week we count down the best six books of 2017. Number five: the wild and exciting Milk Island, by Rhydian Thomas, described by reviewer Joseph Barbon as ‘teetering thrillingly on the brink of bad taste’. As well as being the most conspicuous absence from the recently-announced Ockham Prize longlist, Rhydian Thomas’s … Read more