Posted in Entries by Moira, Fiction: fantasy, Fiction: humour, Fiction: romance, Fiction: science fiction, tagged Nick Harkaway, post-apocalypse, Wodehouse, The Gone-Away World, John le Carre on May 31, 2008 | 10 Comments »
The Jorgmund Pipe is on fire, and Gonzo Lubitsch and his Haulage & Hazmat Emergency Civil Freebooting Company have been employed to deal it.
The Jorgmund Pipe - what it is, who created it, what it transports and why it exists at all - is the whole raison d’être of The Gone-Away World, the debut novel [...]
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The Remains of the Day is one of my favourite novels. I loved everything about it; the characters, the stuffy yet vulnerable Stevens, the setting in that transition period between an older way of life and modernity, the beautifully crafted, formal prose tinged with humour, the poignant undercurrents of emotion. Maybe that’s why my disappointment [...]
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How lovely to be able to tell you all about books that I have picked off the shelves. Books whose covers have captured my imagination or whose blurbs have sparked an interest or maybe even ones I have found whilst on my daily trawls through cyberspace.
The first book I have chosen to share with you [...]
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I haven’t read White Teeth. There are many reasons for this, including jealousy, ennui and Terry Pratchett. Terry Pratchett? Yes. It happened this way. Once the hype had died down, and only 15% of people I saw on the Tube were reading it, I finally decided to give White Teeth a go. I read the [...]
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