The over-arching title of this eight-volume novel brings to mind the Rougon-Macquart. The comparison is apposite because while Zola structures his series around his faith in biological determinism, Dent’s novel dismisses it as a delusion.
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As a half French, half American individual, I give in to a pastime common to double nationals, which consists of regularly comparing both countries of origin.
So far, critics seem to agree that Egan has eschewed experimentation on this occasion and turned her hand to an old-fashioned crime thriller wrapped in an historical novel.
Concluding the London Grip serial story for Christmas
Continuing the London Grip serial story for Christmas
A London Grip serial story for Christmas
A new novel by John Lucas looks back in search of explanations for two sudden deaths occurring in an English village just after World War Two
Thomas Ovans gets to grips with an intriguing novel by John Lucas which deals with a small-town jazz musician’s rather complicated love life.
Thomas Ovans finds it easy to get into the spirit of a post-Cold War thriller by Maggie Hamand
P W Bridgman confesses himself pleasantly surprised by an unorthodox combination of poetry collection and murder mystery: he promises however that his review contains no spoilers.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, fiction, P W Bridgman, poetry