A remarkably lucid and targeted vision that cuts through the haze like a sniper’s bullet soars over an opium field.
Category: Reviews
Crime fiction you can’t ignore: The Listening Walls by Margaret Millar
What I like about Margaret Millar’s novels is that every chapter is strong enough and laced with enough character, tone and climax to function as its own short story.
A war story that explores instead of explodes: Why you must read the devastating Will by Jeroen Olyslaegers
Entire nations and towns were occupied, overruled by new leaders. You could hear the pin of a grenade drop. From a distance, you would have no idea.
Book review: The Mongolian Conspiracy by Rafael Bernal
It’s as if the lead character of a madcap Hunter S Thompson novel has stumbled into a Graham Greene thriller – that’s the best way I can hope to set the scene for Rafael Bernal’s 1969 cult classic The Mongolian Conspiracy.
So I finally finished Shantaram…
I must’ve started reading this 933 page epic a year or so ago. From the first chapter I knew I loved it. And yet it took me so long to actually get through it. I realise now that I didn’t want to part with it.
Music to my eyes: A Star Is Born is the nostalgia we need today
To think that Cooper writes, produces, stars, directs, composes much of the music and sings his own material is astonishing – this is the genesis of a multi-talented artist to rival the likes of Welles, Beatty, Eastwood and Chaplin.
