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I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true. Michael Connelly

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the village explainer. Thomas Perry

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people—people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book. E.B. White

I’ve raced through my stack of books and need some recommendations! My preferred genre is novels: recent favorites that I highly recommend are Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward, and Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume. All three of these use language...

Further to recent excellent insights via @Carol Rose Received as email, free sign up. The M Word

Further to a recent discussion of contemporary book jaceket designs, this link from second hand bookseller Abe Books features original vintage jackets. Any faves?

Last night UK BBC 4 at 9 PM....'Paperback Heroes 'with Andrew Marr. What makes a paperback compulsive reading? Last night they looked at the detective story. Val McDermid was on to Jimmy Savile and put him in a novel...disguised by being handsome and charming or he might have recognised himself...

PODCAST With Will Self and other London writers. Ben Aaronovitch could get a mention. Reviewers who say they don't read fantasy have also said they have read Rivers of London for his wonderful portraiture of streets they know: London Books are big business, and London's open for Business...