Unlike other relationships that have a purpose beyond themselves and are clearly delineated as such (dentist-patient, lawyer-client, teacher-student), the writer-subject relationship seems to depend for its life on a kind of fuzziness and murkiness, if not utter covertness, of purpose. If everybody put his cards on the table, the game would be over. from The…
As a massive Tom Waits fan, I’m a sucker for a book that uses his lyrics as an epigraph so The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty won me over before I even started reading. Thankfully though, the book itself did not disappoint. The story is set in 1981 in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.…
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles For some strange reason, I have never read Agatha Christie before so I can’t talk about her style, but in And Then There Were None, she doesn’t mess about. The…
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