by NRB | 7 Dec 2017 | Non-fiction |
This biography of Anthony Powell is a fine examination of the creative process and the time between the two world wars. For those who have read and loved – or, as in my case, wallowed in – the 12 novels of A Dance to the Music of Time, this stunningly impressive...
by NRB | 15 Jan 2015 | Fiction |
This deliberately strange and inventive homage to Aldous Huxley is a novel of ideas that will draw each reader in differently. Crow Mellow makes no secret of its strangeness. The book is narrower in size than normal, the author’s name in small type, just two sentences...
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