Another lovely story from William Boyd arrives this Autumn. Cashel Greville Ross is our hero, the eponymous ‘Romantic’. As we’ve come to expect with this author, the tale is well-told, intriguing, and it brushes us up against real historical events (a walk-on role at the battle of Waterloo; hanging out with Lord Byron and his… Continue reading A Dashing Fellow
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Very Cozy Detectives
Richard Osman can write, and The Thursday Murder Club is a jolly good romp of a read. You’ll know already that it’s set in a posh residential ‘home’ or clubhouse for the elderly but spritely of mind, and a nicely-controlled, diverse mix of men and women have formed themselves into a little sub-club for solving… Continue reading Very Cozy Detectives
The Blind Light – Stuart Evers
Picador are positioning this Gen Adult/Literary Fiction title on 1 June as a heavy-hitting state-of-the-nation novel in the vein of Don de Lillo and I can see why. Evers is an accomplished author and every page is finely-wrought, full of carefully-observed, arresting prose, and polished, effective dialogue. I struggled with it, though. The allusive present-day… Continue reading The Blind Light – Stuart Evers
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