MICHAEL WILDING’S SPIKED REVIEW OF DISPLACEMENT Very pleased to say that the renowned Australian writer Michael Wilding has reviewed Displacement handsomely for Spiked. Here’s the link – http://www.spiked-online.com/spiked-review/article/the-loneliness-of-the-high-rise-free-runner/20005#.WVmAJjOZNok And here’s the text. Thanks, Michael. The loneliness of the long distance free-runner Through all the formal variations of the English novel, one theme recurs: the two nations. The huge… Continue reading
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Dancing into darkness – Holbein’s Dance of Death
DANCING INTO DARKNESS The Dance of Death, Hans Holbein, London: Penguin Classics, 2016, 184pps., pb., £9.99 If age is synonymous with canonicity – an assumption increasingly questioned – Hans Holbein’s 1523-5 Dance of Death qualifies as ‘classic’ on that score alone. But his striking work is also defining in deeper ways, epitomising the Reformation, when… Continue reading
My Spiked review of Dublin Seven, Frankie Gaffney’s novel of inner-city drug-dealing
My Spiked review of Frankie Gaffney’s gritty novel Dublin Seven is now online here: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/dublin-seven-nasty-brutish-and-brilliant/19053#.WEHyhXecZok