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Warning!
Picking up Books To Die For will cause serious sleep deprivation….resulting from the reader’s inability to put it down – like many books designed to be dipped into, it has an irresistible ‘more-ish’...
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Keen readers of Camilleri who also enjoy the Montalbano series on BBC4 will have realised that TV has overtaken the books: the latest to be translated into English, The Age of Doubt, will be published...
View ArticleWhat happened to Editors?
More specifically, what happened to copy or sub-editors? You know, those people in book publishing who used to check spelling, grammar etc before the book was published. I’ve complained in the past...
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Death Comes to Pemberley
Although I’m a great fan of P. D. James, I resisted this at first because I’m an even bigger fan of Jane Austen. Pride & Prejudice has been a favourite book of mine since I was about 13, so I was...
View ArticleDeath Comes to Pemberley – TV adaptation
Origin Pictures is working ….[on] film and TV projects including a Wire-style crime drama set in Manchester from Matt Greenhalgh and an adaptation of recently optioned PD James novel Death Comes to...
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Books To Die For/Peter May
I’ve enjoyed reading Books To Die For, despite the very American slant – it seems to me that most of the books being recommended are of the hard-boiled/noir/gritty US urban realism type, though my...
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Ripper Street and The Victorian City
Ripper Street is proving a very superior sort of Sunday evening crime series and the writer, Richard Warlow has clearly done his research thoroughly. I’m reading Judith Flanders’s The Victorian City...
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Ann Cleeves
If you’ve enjoyed the Peter May books set on Lewis and are longing for more Scottish island mystery, try the Shetland quartet* by Ann Cleeves. The stories are not quite as dark, intense and...
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Inspector Banks’s music
Following a tip from a listener to Radio 3′s Breakfast programme, I visited Peter Robinson’s website to find playlists of music listened to by Inspector Banks during several of the novels. Mostly...
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The Art of Translation
I’ve spoken before about the importance of translators – their work can have a huge impact on our enjoyment of books written in foreign languages. I’ve noticed this particularly while reading Helene...
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