Writers are insane

Dark Sacred Night (Michael Connelly)

Dark Sacred Night (Michael Connelly)

Connelly has become the pampered of the critics. His noir novels, narrated by the depressive (and sometimes depressing) detective Harry Bosch are a vice. In this latest release, Renée Ballard discovers the retired Bosch rummaging through the folders of an old case:...

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Killing Commendatore (Haruki Murakami)

Killing Commendatore (Haruki Murakami)

Murakami provokes more hysteria than Rowling and Harry Potter. His new publication is not a book, but a 2,000-page brick divided into two volumes (Emerging Ideas and Mobile Metaphor), which begins when I (he), newly separated, moves to a new house and discovers a...

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Instrumental (James Rhodes)

Instrumental (James Rhodes)

The famous pianist James Rhodes descended into hell to miraculously resurrect. "Classical music saved my life," he writes, after suffering a childhood where he was raped for years by a teacher. Drugs, suicide attempts and a son with Asperger, TDHA and dyspraxia make...

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Asimmetry (Lisa Halliday)

Asimmetry (Lisa Halliday)

This novel explores the inequities that (un) balance human relationships, such as differences in age, talent, wealth, fame, and power. These are particular stories, including Folly, the relationship between a young editor and the mature writer Ezra Blazer, or Madness,...

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