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Late to the Party: Daniel O’Thunder by Ian Weir
“Spectacle, dear boy. Never mind the mirror held to nature. If they want nature they’ll look at a tree. Bangs and whizzes — startling effects — characters who shriek and stab and get on with it. That’s...
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Late to the Party: Boxer, Beetle, by Ned Beauman
When Kevin “Fishy” Broom, a collector of Nazi memorabilia, stumbles upon a secret communique from Adolf Hitler to an English aristocrat named Erskine, he uncovers a mystery that has lain dormant in...
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The Resolution Project: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963)
Musical Accompaniment: The Decemberists – “The Bagman’s Gambit” The Resolution Project: For my New Year’s resolution in 2011, I decided to try and read all one hundred of the novels picked by Time...
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Late to the Party: The Ladies of Grace Adieu, by Susanna Clarke
The Ladies of Grace Adieu is a short story collection released shortly after Susanna Clarke’s stellar first novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. The nine stories collected here mostly take place in...
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Late to the Party: Angelmaker, by Nick Harkaway
Musical Accompaniment: The Clash, “Tommy Gun”: “The world was getting old and cruel. The great game she had played, the wild, primary-colour roller coaster, had become something harsher. It wasn’t...
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Late to the Party: Old Filth, by Jane Gardam (2004)
Some long-time readers of this blog may recall my struggle to finish reading Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time, a twelve-book long cycle of books taking place mostly in London between the two...
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Late to the Party: Anno Dracula, by Kim Newman (1992)
I’d heard about Anno Dracula for a long time before actually getting my hands on it. When I was in high school, one of the big genres I liked to read was alternate history. I worked my way through...
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Review: The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell (2014)
WARNING FOR SPOILERBABIES: There are some things that could be construed as spoilers in this review, so be aware. The inside flap of The Bone Clocks posts a glowing review from Publishers Weekly, which...
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Review: Will Starling, by Ian Weir (2014)
There’s something about the idea of surgery that captures our imaginations. The idea of a person who holds a literal knife’s edge between life and death for a helpless mortal, who’s either tied down or...
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Late to the Party: Flashman, by George MacDonald Fraser (1969)
Musical Accompaniment: “The Rake’s Song”, by The Decemberists Harry Paget Flashman is basically a real asshole, but he’s an entertaining one to say the least. After getting kicked out of Rugby School...
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Review: Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015)
While it may have laid down roots in the late Sixties and Seventies, with the blockbuster success of films like Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and The Omen (1976), or with the resurgence of interest in occult...
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