I always though Shirley Jackson wrote The Lottery – one of the 20th century’s most anthologized short stories – and The Haunting of Hill House, then died at the age of 48 and it was all a terrible waste of an enormously promising career. Wrong. This woman wrote. In her short life – and while …
A Twin Peaks duo
These books are fun! I am a huge Twin Peaks fan. I have been, ever since I watched the pilot episode twice in 24 hours on a VHS tape in 1990. I like the weird plot turns, the eccentric characters, the deadpan humour, the bursts of unexpected violence. But I’d be the first to admit …
The Partner
I continue to admire John Grisham. He has a startling ability to keep you turning the pages, to make you want to read ‘just one more chapter’ until your eyelids droop and you can’t keep the words in focus anymore. A lot of it’s pacing. He never repeats an incident; something new is always happening. …
High Citadel
Back to the days of adventure. A plane carrying a group of stranded passengers crash lands in the Andes. On board is a local politician that the communists who run the country want to assassinate. Since they’ll have to kill all the other passengers too, because they’re witnesses, the passengers fight back. But they're unarmed …
