... Elizabeth Wellington has an excellent piece about Philly author Solomon Jones: Author's political thriller boasts Philly street cred
And Karl Kirchwey thinks highly of Olga Grushin's The Dream Life of Sukhanov: A Soviet artist sells out, ascends - and self-destructs
David Hiltbrand is impressed with Denise Mina's The Dead Hour: A young reporter in Glasgow bumps into a brutal murder
The Dead Hour is set in the early 80s so the class struggle was very fresh. Denise Mina mentions Tony Benn the old Laborite in the dawn of Thatcherism.
ReplyDeleteThanks, David. I'll pass the info along to David (Hiltbrand, that is). I'm old enough to remember when Tony was Anthony Wedgwood-Benn.
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