The Booktopia Book Guru asks Gavin Extence author of The Universe Versus Alex Woods Ten Terrifying Questions ———————– 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? I was born, raised and schooled in Lincolnshire, England. Imagine perfectly flat farmland from horizon to horizon and... Read more

I am very happy to be able to introduce Gavin Extence – I read and loved his début novel The Universe Versus Alex Woods (out 12th Feb  2013) – a novel which takes one of the darkest subjects available to a writer, human mortality, and examines it with such grace, intelligence and empathy that we look in the abyss without flinching. Part The World According to Garp, part Sophie’... Read more