I know that the RIP Challenge always takes place in October, but there is something about January – the short, dark days – that I think lends itself to a good creepy read. Ira Levin’s novel is a modern horror classic, probably so well-known because of the expertly executed film adaptation, but even if…
Lost Memory of Skin is the first book I have read by acclaimed author Russell Banks, my only previous experience of his work being the film adaptation of The Sweet Hereafter (which I loved). Lost Memory of Skin is, in some respects, a strange book and one that I think is may be not the…
Given that Christmas is now mere days away added to the fact that I have twins who will be turning eight on the 23rd, I’ll be signing off now for a while and will be back at the end of the month with my Books of the Year (if I ever decide on them!) For…
First published in 1968, Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a collection of essays, largely about California and published mainly within the pages of The Saturday Evening Post across the previous decade. Fifty years on, what is most striking about the collection is the writing, which is vivid and alive. The style of New Journalism…
