Fool: A Novel by Christopher Moore
Paying homage in a cheeky way to the Bard, Christopher Moore’s take on the classic King Lear play is a brilliant mix of bawdry bedroom-bathroom comedy with a tragic novel in five acts. The story is told by the one person who knows everything that is going on because as [...]
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Fool by Christopher Moore - Review
Vicious Circle by Mike Carey - Review
Vicious Circle by Mike Carey
Freelance exorcist Felix Castor returns for a second installment in Carey’s supernatural noir series. When he takes a seemingly insignificant “missing ghost” case, the complications soon multiply at a dizzying pace. Could his latest police consulting job, his friend Juliet’s haunted church case, and the sudden improvement in the condition of [...]
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth - Review
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
A trip to New York for surgery leads to a hasty house-swap with a young, pretty, literary couple. One sometimes wonders whether anyone in Roth’s New York isn’t a writer of some kind - or a Philip Roth of some kind. In Exit Ghost, Roth’s comic turns are joined by welcome [...]
DogFellow’s Ghost by Gavin Smith - Review
DogFellow’s Ghost by Gavin Smith
HG Wells’s 1896 classic exploring ideas of intelligence and evolution has vivisectionist Dr Moreau attempting to create human beings from animals on a remote Pacific island, only for Moreau to fall victim to one of his own creations. Wells’s short novel is recast in Smith’s even shorter fable, which concentrates on [...]
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth - Review
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
On the eve of George W Bush’s re-election in November 2004 New Yorkers, fearful of another attack, are leaving Manhattan in droves. Trust Philip Roth’s alter-ego, Nathan Zuckerman, to be heading the other way. Now in his 70s, the reclusive Zuckerman returns to the city to receive treatment for the prostate [...]
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