Wednesday, 21 December 2022

Sex with Travis McGee and John D. MacDonald

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  Sometime in the 1970s one of my first forays into crime fiction came via John D. MacDonald's series about Travis McGee, a Florida-base...
Friday, 16 December 2022

The Hollows (2022) by Daniel Church

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Folk horror, which is the category  The Hollows mostly falls into, is very much a UK-based genre. From M.R. James to Algernon Blackwood to A...
Wednesday, 7 September 2022

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) by James Weldon Johnson

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Yes, this is a novel, albeit one that uses its fictional elements as a loose (very loose) framework on which the author hangs a travelogue, ...
Wednesday, 3 August 2022

Book Review: The Fourth of June (1962) by David Benedictus

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Before the libidinous suet pudding and Eton graduate known as Boris Johnson came along, Eton College was famous as an artisanal workshop cra...
Thursday, 9 June 2022

Book Review: Die a Stranger (2012) by Steve Hamilton

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One of the things that distinguishes crime fiction from other genres is its frequent focus on creating a strong sense of place; in fact, thi...
Friday, 13 May 2022

Book Review: Slow Horses (2010) and Real Tigers (2016) by Mick Herron

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I haven't read any spy fiction in years, but at the urging of friends and relatives I decided to give Mick Herron's Slough House ser...
Friday, 21 January 2022

The Republic of False Truths (2020) by Alaa Al Aswany

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One of the surest indications of the quality of this novel about the popular revolt in Egypt in 2011, is that the author is no longer welcom...