Cool writing, some passages (especially the italicized dreams) are really breathtaking, the way the words sound together. But two pretty big gripes with the thing: first, the setting is totally protean and ambiguous, one chapter sounding like it's from the 60's and the next from the late 2000's. ...
When Evan Roberts proposed that Mr Justice Overton should adjourn for the day, it was a suggestion that appealed to everyone in court, with the sole exception of Gareth Morgan-Davies. Gareth suspected that his best hope was to press home whatever advantage he had gained while the turbulence laste...
Jamey and his family sauntered up the road like a troupe of weird birds, Maurice first, a tall man with a receding hairline and thin body, except for a bulbous paunch that put the buttons of his white sleeve-rolled shirt under pressure. Dee followed a half-step behind dressed in a sort of trouser...
Rumors were rife of intrigue in sacred places, echoes of the times when popes murdered each other like kings. It was all they needed now with the Church being attacked from all sides. Not that he wasn’t up for one more fight; what bothered him the most was something far more fundamental. How coul...
Empty and serene but for the mutterings of hope and despair from the shadowy sinners who toured the stations of the cross, kneeling to dwell on every moment of the suffering that was never really understood. He used to smile at that. “Everyone goes in a sinner and comes out a freshly minted saint...
But they seemed to escalate with the onset of the Blitz in September 1940. Several hundred people in London were killed on the first night of the Blitz alone, 7th September, and it soon became clear that my mission of staying in place to be available to MI6 was not a soft option either at work or...
It may be obvious. Had you or Frank invited anyone else on board the Rosemary D? Were you expecting anyone?’ ‘No, of course not.’ ‘When you went on board, were you aware of anyone else in the vicinity of the boat?’ ‘No.’ ‘Did you meet or see anyone in the meadow as you were making your way from S...