“He’s not a copper who happens to be a man. He’s a man who happens to be a copper, and he carries that weight with him everywhere he goes.”
“When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it.”
“Characterisation is where Kidd excels. Cathal Flood is wonderfully enigmatic and complex, and the first description of Maud’s landlady Renata … is assurance if any were needed that this is a writer with a poet’s skill of balancing clarity and inventive flair … Just as Mulderrig in Himself was conjured out of a beautiful, often erotic lyricism, so Bridlemere is brought to life by Kidd’s rich depictions of decay and eccentricity”
Andrew Michael Hurley
The Guardian
“Holloway has not died, but has spent the past few years — indeed, much of his life — thinking deeply about death, the result of which is a new book, Waiting for the Last Bus. He is also an avid reader of other people’s obits, which is why he has agreed to contribute to this, a first draft of his own. ‘I love the obituary as an art form,’ he says. ‘Done well, it’s like a short story, an encapsulation of a complex life.’”
Peter Ross
The Times
“Bloody January, Alan Parks’s excellent first novel, propels him into the top class of Scottish noir authors. Glasgow detective Harry McCoy, a shambolic mess dedicated to the truth, is so noir that he makes most other Scottish cops seem light grey”
Marcel Berlins
The Times
Vigilance has its limits… and it’s not good news for early afternoon meetings! Discover more about the science of good and bad timing in Daniel Pink’s new book WHEN.
“Post-apocalyptic fiction too often pays lip service to serious problems like climate change while allowing the reader to walk away unscathed, cocooned in an ironic escapism and convinced that the impending disaster is remote. Not so with Lidia Yuknavitch’s brilliant and incendiary new novel, which speaks to the reader in raw, boldly honest terms. “The Book of Joan” has the same unflinching quality as earlier works by Josephine Saxton, Doris Lessing, Frank Herbert, Ursula K. Le Guin and J. G. Ballard. Yet it’s also radically new, full of maniacal invention and page-turning momentum…”
Jeff Vandermeer
New York Times
What is the myth of responsibility, and what could we gain by challenging it? Watch this wonderful short RSA video, with Raoul Martinez, author of Creating Freedom.