Little Hands Clapping is the story of an unusual museum in a narrow street in an unidentified German city. Its main character is the museum's sole attendant, addressed once or twice by his employer as ...

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Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes Canongate HK$104 If you haven't tried Dan Rhodes yet, then Little Hands Clapping is a fine place to start. All of Rhodes' Rhodesiest qualities are present: a ...

From its opening scene, in which a grey old man lies in bed, eats a spider and listens as a woman hangs herself downstairs, Dan Rhodes's new novel packs a gleefully nasty punch. The story is mainly ...