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Books and Issue 626

Mark Radcliffe - Thank You for the Days

2 Apr 2009

Showbiz is, as many will attest, a fickle business. Radio DJ, TV presenter, musician and all-round music boffin Mark Radcliffe has managed to exist on its periphery, trousers and dignity both relatively intact, for over two and a half decades. That’s…

Wells Tower - Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

2 Apr 2009

(Granta) SHORT STORY COLLECTION Another month, another hotshot North American writer comes our way. With a splurge of fanfare arrives this debut collection from Wells Tower, who has previously contributed to the cult literary likes of McSweeney’s…

Denise Mina

2 Apr 2009

The award-winning Glasgow crime writer takes time out of from her play, short story and novel writing to set her stall on home turf and talk about her collection of works, including her newest, Still Midnight. Thu 16 Apr, Lost in Fiction, 114 Byres…

GF Newman - Crime and Punishment

2 Apr 2009

(Quercus) GANGSTER NOVEL This London gangster novel doesn’t aspire to the lofty literary allusions of its Russian namesake. Eschewing Dostoevsky’s musings on the moral dilemma of murder, crime writer and TV producer Gordon Newman (Law and Order…

James Runcie - East Fortune

2 Apr 2009

(Bloomsbury) FAMILY SAGA Featuring an ensemble cast of characters and set in East Lothian, this tedious novel is trying to be a modern family saga, but fails on almost every level. The story centres on the three Henderson brothers, all…

Lorraine Mariner - Furniture

2 Apr 2009

(Picador) POETRY COLLECTION It’s a far cry from Bridget Jones, but there’s still something about Furniture that is likely to appeal to the chick-lit generation. British poet Lorraine Mariner’s first full-length poetry collection is suffused with…

Pat Mills and Various - ABC Warriors: The Meknificent Seven / The Shadow Warriors

2 Apr 2009

(Rebellion) SCI-FI COMIC More British sci-fi action from 2000AD with the ‘Atomic’, ‘Bacterial’, ‘Chemical’ robot warriors, built to withstand any crisis. Going right back to their debut in 1979, The Meknificent Seven shows the formation of the…

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