London is a Spook Country for me
Nerd alert: I’m a big fan of William Gibson and I collect signed first edition books of his. Yeah, I even collect the regional versions with different front covers… William Gibson has a new book out called Spook Country* and he’s doing the rounds at the moment doing book signings. Of course, he won’t be [...]
Life is sweet
It’s late afternoon as I write this and Maria McKee’s Why Wasn’t I More Grateful (When Life Was Sweet) is finishing up as I post this. It’s being a very pleasant day so far. And things can only get better. Had a lie-in this morning before going to the gym. I spent so long in [...]
Two book reviews for the price of one
I’ve just finished reading two throwaway thrillers and I thought I’d share my thoughts on them with you. Stephen Leather’s Soft Target is a taut thriller and doesn’t really deserve the throwaway tag. The book contains three storylines that develop seperately for most of the book. Inevitably, these storylines do come together for an exciting [...]
My feet hurt
My feet hurt so much I can hardly walk. I think I can trace my infirmity to Tuesday when I had a couch day. Not a duvet day so beloved of our American cousins but an actual couch day. My office is closed for the week so I had nothing to do Tuesday except get [...]
Santa delivers
William Gibson is my favourite author. He hasn’t written anything for awhile but…reading his recent blog, it looks like he’s on the final lap of publishing a new novel. Yippee! He’s calling it ‘Spook Country‘ for now. My new novel sort of glances sideways at this “death of cyberspace” meme. It’s “everting*”, says the French [...]
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