Devastating simplicity

Mister Pip, the Commonwealth Prize-winning novel by Wellingtonian Lloyd Jones, is praised both for its lyricism and its deft handling of post-colonial issues in the Guardian. “The simplicity with which he describes the atrocities that take place [in Bougainville] is devastating,” writes reviewer Olivia Laing. “But it is the great faith that Jones has in literature, to effect change no less than to offer solace, that gives this extraordinary book its charge.” Mister Pip is the first book by Lloyd Jones to be released in the UK.