I’ve always enjoyed Peter James series of police procedural novels set in Brighton. Peter has a close relationship with the Sussex Police, even to the extent of sponsoring a police car. He has been able to go out with them on their investigations and his books have an air of authenticity about them. His latest [...]
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I write a lot of reviews and while I only usually only write about books I enjoy, sometimes I have the pleasure of writing about something really special. Andrew Miller’s Pure is in this category of “five-star plus”, a book which I hope will be nominated for a prize, being both literary and readable [...] I’ve just been to Bruges for a couple of days, in perfect autumn weather. We had a tour of the Half Moon Brewery, visited a model railway café and had some fantastic Flemish beef stew. Plus, of course, sampling a few of the 1500 varieties of Belgian beers. Its such a good trip from Britain [...] I have wasted far too much time on Haruki Murakami’s new three volume 1Q84. Its one of those books which is just good enough to make you want to carry on reading, but not quite good enough to make you feel pleased to be reading it. Its of vast length, and I reached the end [...] When I worked in I.T. I would occasionally be approached by recruitment agencies who wanted to put me forward for different jobs in the industry. But they were never as classy as the private head-hunting company Alfa run by Roger Brown in Jo Nesbo’s latest book, Headhunters. Alfa is located in a twenty-five room building [...] This article was revised and updated in November 2011. It is much longer than my usual articles and is more of a study guide than a review and definitely contains “spoilers”. The books of W G Sebald have interested me for many years now and unlike most other books, I find myself coming back [...] Well, The Sisters Brothers didn’t win this year’s Booker Prize and most of the pundits said that it was an outsider. Perhaps it was a little too quirky, a humorous add-on the short-list to provide some light reading for those who struggle through the complete set. The novel is set in 1851, and readers find [...] Last week I spent a morning in the custody of Sussex Police undergoing a “speed awareness course”. OK, so they’d contracted it out to some private trainers, but there was no doubt that if I failed to “contribute positively” I would be referred back to the police to receive a fine and the mandatory two [...] I’ve just re-read Conrad’s The Secret Agent and found it as fresh and relevant today as when I first read it about thirty years ago. The Secret Agent reminds its readers that Victorian London was a place where terrorism and bombing were feared: the threat of anarchy and revolution was never too far from public [...] |
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