It looks like this on the outside and It’s full of words.

Pictures appear in your mind when you read it. It’s like a movie but using paper instead of film, and your head instead of a camera.

Some of the words are nice but some are just terrifying. I don’t mind the bits where tentacular star-spawn pulsate inside the bodies of their victims, but that bit where he’s chopping tofu is really scary. The knife is so sharp and I just don’t know what he’s going to do with it.

This book doesn’t always make sense, but then life doesn’t, so in that sense, it does. Life I mean, not the book. No wait, I do mean the book.

It all gets resolved in the end. The book, I mean. No, life too, probably.

Nothing really happens at first, but then everything does. It’s art imitating life. Or vice versa.

Three recursive stories

Donnie Darko – “The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had” – Tears for Fears. You have to listen to the film’s theme-song before you can understand what’s happening. Dreamy.

Interstellar – messing with gravity, black holes and relativity, this film will also mess with your head. It’s about the consequences of choice and the sacrifice of doing the right thing. It happens everyday, parents are forced to trade time for food and security. When you retire and finally have free time, your kids are not kids anymore. Horrifying.

Recursion – Ever had the sense that you’re with someone just because it’s beyond your control to change? Free will, advocacy, dualism, fate. All of these are on the line when a strange entity arrives in a secluded Lake District village. Don’t worry, there are monsters too. Probably.

You can pick up a copy of Recursion at most bookshops, or buy your e-book here at a special price.