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JAMES OSWALD The Gathering Dark. Review and overview by Jean Bedford

JAMES OSWALD The Gathering Dark. Review and overview by Jean Bedford

by NRB | 24 May 2018 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

James Oswald has been hailed as the new star of Scottish noir – with a difference. The Gathering Dark is the eighth and possibly final book in the Inspector Tony McLean series, which has been going since 2013 when James Oswald self-published Natural...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on his Celtic twilight

The Godfather: Peter Corris on his Celtic twilight

by NRB | 23 Mar 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree …                                         ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ by WB Yeats It started a while back when I listened,...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on his Celtic twilight

The Godfather: Peter Corris on retrospectives

by NRB | 9 Feb 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

A good number of authors who’ve employed series characters have written what are called in the business retrospectives – that is, stories that hark back to earlier events in their characters’ careers. John le Carré did so with Smiley’s People (1979), tracing previous...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on his Celtic twilight

The Godfather: Peter Corris on literary vs popular fiction #2

by NRB | 4 Aug 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 3 comments

From time to time discussion still arises about the difference between literary and popular fiction, and their respective merits. Those of us interested in the topic (and I imagine this would include many NRB readers) are often divided. Michael Wilding made his...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on his Celtic twilight

The Godfather: Peter Corris on revisiting books, again

by NRB | 7 Jul 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 2 comments

This will be the last of my prison despatches – that is, columns to do with my two-months-plus time in hospital. Unlike some patients who are able to sit in their beds or on their chairs and stare at the walls or occupy themselves with television, I’d be crawling...
Crime Scene: MICHAEL CONNOLLY The Burning Room. Reviewed by Peter Corris

Crime Scene: MICHAEL CONNOLLY The Burning Room. Reviewed by Peter Corris

by NRB | 16 Dec 2014 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

Connelly makes the most of his crisscrossing plots and delivers a disturbing picture of a fearful America. I’m forced to ration my reading due to my poor eyesight and I favour history, biography and historical novels over other books. Once an omnivorous reader of...

Crime Scene: IAN RANKIN Standing in Another Man’s Grave

by Jean Bedford | 14 Nov 2012 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 comments

Rebus is back, as individual and interesting as ever. After five years out in the cold of retirement (literally: he’s been working cold cases as a civilian) Rebus has managed to wangle his way back to CID as a semi-official investigator in Standing in Another...
             

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