Dan Rhodes top 10 short books

Dan Rhodes is the author of Anthropology, Timoleon Vieta Come Home, and most recently, Gold, a tale of a Japanese woman finding her place in a small, Welsh seaside community. It is a short book and, according to the book's publisher, read it and "you'll laugh, probably cry and you'll be finished in time to go to the pub".He named his top 10 short books for the Guardian. Here are the first three