Robert Lloyd Parry: The Book I Would Like To Be Buried With…
By: Mathew F. Riley on August 29, 2010
This special twentieth Bury Me… features grand panjandrum and actor Robert Lloyd Parry, the man behind the Nunkie Theatre Company, responsible for many an uneasy evening with the master of English supernatural stories…
For Richer, For Poorer by Victoria Coren
By: Simon Parker on September 17, 2009
For Richer For Poorer is the thoroughly enjoyable memoir of a life spent playing poker by the poster girl for all things BBC4, Victoria Coren. Who would have thought that such a memoir, written by a fully-fledged member of the BBC media classes, could be so engaging? The poker boom is already a few years [...]
War on the Margins, by Libby Cone
By: Simon Appleby on July 20, 2009
Libby Cone’s debut novel is notable for a number of reasons: firstly because, unusually for a work of fiction, its genesis was as a thesis for a Masters Degree in Jewish Studies, which should tell you all you need to know about the factual accuracy of the core material, the extracts of correspondence and orders [...]
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, by Reif Larsen
By: Simon Appleby on May 4, 2009
Sometimes a book comes along that is so uneexpectedly wonderful and clever you can only give thanks and enjoy it. Reif Larsen’s debut novel is one such book – a beautifully written coming-of-age novel that is immeasurably enhanced by the copious marginalia of T.S. Spivet, the twelve year old genius mapmaker of the title. To [...]
Stratton’s War by Laura Wilson
By: Simon Parker on March 7, 2009
As sharks and Nazis are to the History Channel, so WW2 novels are to historical crime fiction and Laura Wilson’s Stratton’s War is a recent and enjoyable addition to the Home Front, Blitz-based sub-genre. Better than Robert Harris, on a par with Barbara Nadel, Stratton’s War threatens to approach the level of a good John Lawton. [...]
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Mark Sarvas, author of Harry, Revised
By: The Editor on October 4, 2008
Mark Sarvas is best known as the host of the popular and controversial literary weblog “The Elegant Variation” which has been mentioned in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Guardian (A Top 10 Literary Blog), Forbes Magazine (Best of the Web), Los Angeles Magazine (A Top L.A. Blog), The Scotsman, Salon, the [...]
Death On A Branch Line, by Andrew Martin
By: Simon Parker on April 3, 2008
I never cease to be amazed at just how micro, micro crime genres can get. Fair enough CJ Sansom trawling round Tudor London dragging a dozen Susannah Gregorys in his wake. Or the European grand tour. Or the easy appeal of Britain in the late 30s. I can even see how you get more than [...]
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Robert Lloyd Parry: The Book I Would Like To Be Buried With…
This special twentieth Bury Me… features grand panjandrum and actor Robert Lloyd Parry, the man behind the Nunkie Theatre Company, responsible for many an uneasy evening with the master of English supernatural stories…
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