Elspeth Latimer
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The Lost Detective
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Writing the Detectives: Character and the Series Form
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| A compassionate, searing account of how the wounds suffered in childhood – spiritual, physical – live on in the mind and body, inflicting fresh damage on a young man, K, who is seeking to understand his place in this world. Derek Owusu’s writing is v ...more | |
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| Before reading a book, I prefer to know very little about what it is ‘about’, and often I don’t look at the blurb, as I want to make my own journey through a text, rather than be issued beforehand with signposts. I knew nothing about ‘On the Calculat ...more | |
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| I became very caught up in the unfolding story and the sense of souls, linked across the ages, and I really liked how the novel is told via the different narratives, dating from 1850 and reaching forward into the distant future. I don’t want to say t ...more | |
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| I love literature in its many forms, in particular crime fiction, and I also love art and design. Orhan Pamuk brings together, in an extended multi-voiced narrative, the expressions of creativity that bring me most pleasure and fulfilment. I really l ...more | |
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| I love literature in its many forms, in particular crime fiction, and I also love art and design. Orhan Pamuk brings together, in an extended multi-voiced narrative, the expressions of creativity that bring me most pleasure and fulfilment. I really l ...more | |
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| I love literature in its many forms, in particular crime fiction, and I also love art and design. Orhan Pamuk brings together, in an extended multi-voiced narrative, the expressions of creativity that bring me most pleasure and fulfilment. I really l ...more | |
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| What a thrilling and captivating read, I absolutely loved it!!! I've just finished and am feeling bereft, as I don’t want to leave this glorious Victorian world! I want to eat cake with Minnie and Albert at Brown’s tea room, I want to join their dete ...more | |
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| Glorious! I loved immersing myself in the vividly conjured world of Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith, the gifted and visionary artist and designer who created the iconic tarot cards. I really enjoyed feeling and experiencing Pixie’s journey, in the early ...more | |
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| This is the third and final instalment in the superb Highway 59 series, featuring Darren Mathews, a Black Texas Ranger. As a crime fiction researcher, I have studied a wide range of contemporary crime series, and Attica Locke’s series is among the ve ...more | |
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| ‘The Hour of the Star’ by Clarice Lispector, translated by Benjamin Moser and published by Penguin. I have always loved fiction in its many forms, and I am also fascinated by how writers construct characters. In this novel, Lispector records the expe ...more | |
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