Riddley Walker

A 2015 blog post on Riddleyspeak aka the language of Riddley Walker, more sophisticated than most in its linguistic analysis.

Fascinating long study of the mechanics of Riddley Walker's language, written circa 1991 and published in Science Fiction Studies in 2000.

Benet Vincent, posting in 2020 on the Coventry University Ponying the Slovos blog which looks at fictional dialects in translation, critiques various writers' and academics' previous essays on the language of Riddley Walker.

Enthusiastic 1981 review of Riddley Walker for the Washington Post by Michael Dirda. Contains a few spoilers, so if you haven't yet read the book you may wish to read the review afterwards.

Audio of Will Self's very entertaining interview with Russell Hoban at the British Library on 2nd February 2011, mostly about Riddley Walker, for a recent edition of which Self had written a foreword. A wonderful recording for which thanks must go to the British Library who posted this on 1st February 2022.

Marco Roth in the London Review of Books 27/1/2022 reviews some of the new Penguin Classis editions including Riddley Walker, Turtle Diary and The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz.

A lovely long article by Mathew Lyons in The Quietus comprehensively looking back over Hoban's career, with particular emphasis on his first eight novels which were recently issued in the Penguin Modern Classics imprint.

Rupert Loydell revisits Russell Hoban's first eight novels as reissued in spring 2021 with new Eduardo Paolozzi covers in the Penguin Modern Classics imprint; also touches on his later books.

Includes critical reception and suggestions for further reading.