I’m fascinated by characters who don’t fit into simple categories – hero, villain, survivor, victim – so I was intrigued…
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Book review: Dirty Little Secrets by Jo Spain
Dirty Little Secrets has a nice set up. It has a golden-age premise (a closed community which must contain the…
Book review: Insomnia by Marina Benjamin
Insomnia captures the fractured experience of insomnia itself. It swerves between lyrical prose about the sensory experience of insomnia, anecdotes…
Book review: Kill [redacted] by Anthony Good
Michael has lost his wife in a terrorist attack. He is determined to get his revenge – not on the…
Guest post: author Q&A with Lipika Pelham
Much of what I know about the Dutch Golden Age comes from fiction (The Coffee Trader by David Liss is…
Book review: The Last by Hanna Jameson
The Last has an original starting point for a post-apocalyptic novel. Jon learns, via the final gasps of social media,…
Guest post: author Q&A with Paul French
I’m a big fan of noir fiction so I was intrigued to hear more about the non-fiction noir of Paul…
Book review: Bitter by Francesca Jakobi
As someone who thinks that likeability is a much overrated quality in a protagonist (particularly a female one) Bitter is…
Reblog: Where Writers Write
Not much to look at? Today I’m a guest on the TNBBC blog, arguing that a boring workspace makes for…
Podcast review: The Last Days of August by Jon Ronson
In The Butterfly Effect, Jon Ronson dissected how technology shaped porn, which in turn shaped the internet, sexuality and arguably,…
