One of my favourite crime writers died this week. Elmore Leonard died on August 20 after suffering a stroke. He was 87. I am missing him as I browse through some of his books again. They are such a pleasure to read it’s a pity there won’t be more of […]
Who says old geezers can't write? Some of them die with the sharpest minds. That's certainly true of the literary critic Frank Kermode, who has just died at the age of 90. Reading about his death yesterday, I turned to his essays published in the London Review of Books. You […]
Ian Rankin fans will enjoy reading his conversation with the Indian communist leader Prakash Karat, who has read all his 17 Inspector Rebus novels and did his Master's in politics at the University of Edinburgh, in Rankin's hometown. Rankin talks about his working-class parents, his being the first from his […]
I was surprised when a New York Times book reviewer writing about a history of thrillers said he had never read John Sandford. He is one of the best American crime writers in business. Sandford writes about cops and robbers as entertainingly as Elmore Leonard, author of Get Shorty and […]
