by Derek | Sep 20, 2019 | Reading, Reviews
I’ve a tradition around Christmas time each year. I don’t really know when it started; perhaps it was in childhood when I’d often get an anthology as a Christmas gift from an aunt or uncle who knew I was the bookish nephew, but didn’t really know what type of things I...
by Derek | Sep 3, 2017 | Reading
Dead is Good Jo Perry Fahrenheit Press 9/July/2017 In most fiction, the death of the protagonist would be the end of the story, but in Jo Perry’s Charlie & Rose series (previously ‘Dead is Better’ & ‘Dead is Best’) it’s the starting point for a series of books...
by Derek | Dec 19, 2015 | Memories, Music, Reading, Writing
Death of a Diva is available now. To buy it, click here. You can also send it as a personalised Gift E-Book here. I write in noise. My mother used to tell anyone who cared to listen that, as a child, I was incapable of enduring silence, and that – with the arrival of...
by Derek | Oct 3, 2015 | Reading
Lawrence Block has been writing since God was in his heaven and Kennedy in the White House. That he’s had an esteemed career goes without saying. He’s written slight pulpy books (After the First Death), Bigger City-wide Blockbusters (the counterintuitively named Small...
by Derek | Sep 18, 2015 | Reading
I have an admission to make: I love melancholy: that sense of ennui at the human condition, a despair at the inevitable entropy and ending of everything, and – bubbling just under it – the anger at man’s impotence in the face of a world that just won’t be set right....
