by NRB | 6 Jul 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I’ve just finished Sebastian Faulks’s take on PG Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (2013). Taking up this kind of challenge … or perhaps accepting this kind of commission from a dead writer’s estate, more accurately, has become something of an industry among...
by NRB | 22 Jun 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I’ve written before about conversations with taxi drivers, and I happened to meet a couple of interesting ones recently. On my way home in a taxi after one of my multifarious medical appointments, I began chatting about nothing in particular as is my wont. The driver...
by NRB | 7 Apr 2015 | Fiction |
The revival of interest in Pym’s delightful comedies of manners is well-deserved. ‘Of course it’s all right for librarians to smell of drink.’ – Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels I came to Barbara Pym late, through reading many comparisons to EF Benson and Jane...
by NRB | 31 Oct 2013 | Fiction |
Moneypenny, M, danger, sex and cigarettes; the self-indulgent, worldly tone: William Boyd’s James Bond gets it right. I imagine that writing a Sherlock Holmes or James Bond pastiche is something like ghost writing or co-authoring an ‘autobiography’....
by NRB | 5 Apr 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
By now there are probably about 200 book-length pastiches of Sherlock Holmes in print. One of the earliest, and to my mind one of the best, was Nicholas Meyer’s The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974). It captured the flavour of the original and was a best-seller,...
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