by Derek | May 31, 2020 | Reading, Reviews, Writing
Back when I was an aspiring writer, one thing would always puzzle me, and that thing was the oft-repeated phrase “Find your own voice.”“Understand character,” I got, as I did “Know the difference between story and plot,” but the own voice thing – especially because it...
by Derek | Oct 25, 2019 | Reading, Reviews
Jo Perry is well known and loved, round these parts, for her series of “Dead is…” books featuring Charlie & Rose. Those books – which I have described as being what would happen if Samuel Beckett wrote a crime series, as well as being “Like ‘The Wire’ meets ‘The...
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....
