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1. At tax time and Christmas, murder rules
June 27, 2013
THE murderous British months of June and July are upon us. By sheer numbers, crime-fiction sloshes away all other genres as one financial year ends and another begins. The reason for all this entertaining gore is publishers hoping to make a killing, the money kind. All those June titles bring hefty...
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2. No-review titles are among the best
January 25, 2013
CYBER smarties figured out years ago how to get any book a 5-star ranking in Amazon’s “customer reviews”. Also how to join the Top Reviewers list. I’ll not describe their methods here. Google can reveal the tricks for would-be fakers. Amazon has not been able to end the deceit, despite banning auth...
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3. To the rescue: Publisher of the Year
December 18, 2011
IRONIC INDEED! In this Age of electronic wonders and instant communication, as we step forward into 2012 the Christmas message has been sounding faint. “Peace on Earth” and “Love Thy Neighbour” struggle nowadays to be heard above the anger against greed and corruption. There is no continent free of ...
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4. Fiction and the first humans
November 20, 2011
THE telling of stories is unique to the human race, no argument. Debate begins only when we ponder our origin. And God said, “Let there be writers.” Flash bang hocus pocus! Cave walls shone with glorious doodles, and the book trade evolved from there. Its writers (and indeed its readers) wondered h...
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5. After Gaddafi, Literature's new dawn
October 24, 2011
The desert song is unshackled. With the defeat and death of the tyrant Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan writers greet a new era. For the first time ever, they can bare their souls without a dictator or occupying power hovering over their pens. Until Gaddafi’s demise, exile was a necessary condition for novel...
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6. Roasting the British Raj
October 15, 2011
by Cathy Macleod at Booktaste
THE sense of humour peculiar to Bryce McBryce was nurtured during his childhood in the British Army. Born to follow the flag, or more precisely his father who was serving that flag, he discovered the weird adult world in remote outposts of Empire, from the age o...
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7. It wasn't the butler. Don't tell!
October 14, 2011
by Cathy Macleod at Booktaste DON’T tell, don’t tell, don’t tell. An urgent voice (perhaps the butler) forbids me whenever I want to write about favourite villains. You see, all my best-loved baddies are in whodunits. Describing them would spoil everything for some reader who is midway through the ...
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8. Stranger than fiction, and richer
October 01, 2011
NOW here’s a strange thing: a book jacket that is worth more than the fiction it covers. While good for the artist’s reputation, it has got to be a put-down for the famous author whose novel won world fame. I refer to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Artist Francis Cugat’s painting fo...
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9. Folk heroes bow to The Great Detective
September 24, 2011
EVERY country has its favourite sleuth. The fictional detective has just about replaced the folk hero in popular esteem. Certainly in popular readership. Ask your bookshop or library. Crime novels are sold or borrowed more than any other kind. Their protagonists usually reflect some concept typical ...
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10. Shakespeare the cripple
September 09, 2011
by Cathy Macleod LAME? William Shakespeare? The brilliant wordsmith, father of English literature, flawed of frame? Yes, he said it himself, even wrote it in a bitter pun: “Speak of my lameness and I straight will halt”. That’s from a sonnet, the medium in which the great poet revealed personal lo...
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