Trouble at mill
I have some sympathy with the pioneering incomers who moved to the Yorkshire mill town of Hebden Bridge in the…
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Sartre tried to prove that hell is other people by locking three strangers in a room for eternity and watching…
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It is not a criticism of Philip Almond that The Lancashire Witches, published to mark the 400th anniversary of the…
View ArticleMurder, rape and racism
As the son of the last British artist to be successfully prosecuted for displaying obscene paintings, I have some empathy…
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I do not have much time for the idea of the redemptive power of the countryside. I am not alone…
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If you are going to read a novel that plays with literary conventions you want it written with aplomb. In…
View ArticleBark and no bite
With so much Nordic noir around, it’s a relief to return to the granddaddy of them all, the hard-boiled private…
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If the inclusion of the erstwhile master of the genre, Raymond Chandler, as a fictonalised character in a pastiche 1930s…
View ArticleDerring-do in Salonica
390074 01: A hot air balloon lifts off during the Telluride Hot Air Balloon Festival, June 2, 2001 in Telluride, Colorado. (Photo by Michael Smith/Getty Images)
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