THE PASSENGER by Cormac McCarthy (PanMacmillan, $49.99 hb)
ormac McCarthy’s his much awaited first novel since 2006 – opens with the heart-breaking suicide of a young woman in a snowy forest, before flashing back to the last week of her life. Bedridden and broken, Alicia Western argues with an unwelcome guest known as “the Kid”, who taunts her, mocking her incestuous relationship with her brother, Bobby. It’s
