LET THE OLD DREAMS DIE AND OTHER STORIES John Ajvide Lindqvist (johnajvide.com) Translated by Marlaine Delargy Quercus (www.quercusbooks.co.uk) £16.99 It’s difficult to believe that it has been a mere five years since John Ajvide Lindqvist’s first novel, Let The Right One In, was first published in English by Quercus. It’s a ten-year-old book that has […]
Read More LET THE OLD DREAMS DIE AND OTHER STORIES by John Ajvide LindqvistTHE COCKTAIL WAITRESS James M. Cain Hard Case Crime (hardcasecrime.com) £16.99 Back in September 2004, Hard Case Crime – then an imprint of American publisher Dorchester – launched with Lawrence Block’s Grifter’s Game. The idea behind the line, as evidenced by the lurid, pulpy (yet beautiful) covers, was to reproduce the feel of those early […]
Read More THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS by James M. CainTHE CHURCH OF SAINTS CYRIL AND METHODIUS RESSLOVA PRAGUE As featured in: HHhH by Laurent Binet Date of visit: 5th September 2012 Price of Adult Admission: Kč75 (≅£2.50) When I started Reader Dad early in 2011, the plan was to stick to the book reviews and leave it at that. Now, a handful of interviews […]
Read More TRAVELOGUE: The Church of Saints Cyril & Methodius (HHhH)THE HUMAN PART Kari Hotakainen Translated by Owen F. Witesman (www.suomitranslation.com) MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com) £14.99 Lieutenant Richard Guérin, the protagonist of Antonin Varenne’s Bed of Nails had a theory of interconnectedness that revolved around a red thread tied around the ankles of people who were linked in some way. It’s not until around three-quarters of […]
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