The thing about crime/spy/thrillers is that they are so quickly read that I can’t keep pace with the reviews. This calls for a catch-up post or, if you prefer, 3 reviews for the price of 1. Di… more →
Lizzy's Literary Lifewrote 4 weeks ago: The thing about crime/spy/thrillers is that they are so quickly read that I can’t keep pace wi … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I have just spent the most intriguing weekend in the company of P D James. (I was going to say delig … more →
wrote 1 month ago: … and he rode up the escalator to the first floor and selected a seat in the corner of the ca … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Short Story September – Week Three – Novella One It’s time to break a taboo or two … more →
wrote 3 months ago: The setting of Tobias Jones’s first novel isn’t obvious to those whose Italian geograph … more →
wrote 3 months ago: WIth 750 events at the EIBF to choose from, it’s possible to have many festivals in one. I mi … more →
wrote 9 months ago: And so my Year in Books reading project brings me to the city, where I shall be holidaying in July. … more →
wrote 9 months ago: Take one egg (Humpty Dumpty), scramble (murder) and set the most underrated detective since Colombo … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Carmen Posadas is a literary superstar in Latin America, Spain and other countries in Europe. Origi … more →
wrote 11 months ago: 1964 Crime Writers Association Best Foreign Novel Chester MacFarland is on the run, the American ag … more →
wrote 11 months ago: Paperback: 496 pages Publisher: Canongate Books (8 Jan 2009) Language English ISBN-10: 1847670377 IS … more →
wrote 1 year ago: In the past few weeks UK TV viewers have been treated to a BBC adaptation of 3 Henning Mankell nove … more →
wrote 1 year ago: You heard me. I’m not scared ….. just slightly terrified! I have allowed myself to be … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Barbara Gowdy likes to push the boundaries of fiction. Her backlist includes The White Bone, writte … more →
wrote 1 year ago: You may know that I lead a reading group at Motherwell library. I’m not a librarian – t … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Sassenachs like myself can sometimes feel a trifle uncomfortable north of Carlisle. Like the time, … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Winner 2008 Two years ago Dominique Manotti was shortlisted for t … more →
wrote 1 year ago: With eleven collections of poetry under his belt, including The Asylum Dance, which won the 2000 Whi … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The Scandinavian assault on the British crime market continues with new (to me) authors arriving on … more →