Wonderfully adept at weaving in new characters, Mcdonald takes a simple melody and orchestrates it into a cacophony of noise. It demands your attention.
Author: Dave Lancaster
Belinda Carlisle once liked one of my photographs.
Requiem for the Detective Novel: The case for Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s 1958 masterpiece The Pledge
What really happens to a policeman who can’t solve his most important case? What becomes of a pillar of society whose foundations are crumbling?
Your ticket to an unforgiving Australian outback: The Dry by Jane Harper
Kiewarra hasn’t seen a cloud for two years but it’s been drowning in sin for generations.
Summer Before The Dark: Writing, alcohol and exile with literature’s émigrés in 1930s Belgium
They read, they write, they drink, they have affairs, they probe, they hide, they hurtle towards their own oblivion, their lives “lived out, in order to be described”.
The mystery of the missing crime novel: Sinner Man by Lawrence Block
Half a century in the making, Sinner Man is one of crime fiction’s most exhilarating rediscoveries.
Album review: The Rolling Stones – Blue & Lonesome
The Stones aren’t just covering these songs; they’re reliving them, getting fuelled by them and translating them into their language.

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