FANTASTIC FICTION – Escapes to other places and other times

Glass

Glass is the first novel of London based writer Alex Christofi (http://alexchristofi.com/) The outline is as follows. Günter Glass, ex-milkman and aspiring window-cleaner, is certainly pure. And he’s pretty transparent. But the jury’s still out on how sharp he is. What naïve young Günter does have is a head for heights and, ever since he

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The Anchoress

It was only the other night that I was luxuriating in the sounds of the Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Symphoniae-Spiritual-Songs-Hildegard-Bingen/dp/B000026NDI/ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_ttl_in) by Hildegard of Bingen. Hildegard was in the charts in the 50s. The 1150s, that is. It occured to me that her monophonic compostions would be the ideal background for a recent publication by Robyn Cadwallader (http://robyncadwallader.com/) – ‘The Anchoress’.

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Dancing in the Dark by Karl Ove Knausgaard

It takes some chutzpah to publish an autobiographical novel in 6 parts over 3,500 pages with the title ‘Min Kamp’ (Norwegian for ‘My Struggle’) with the obvious resonance of a darker figure from twentieth century history. Yet that is exactly what Karl Ove Knausgaard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ove_Knausg%C3%A5rd) has done. In this 4th instalment – Dancing in the Dark – Knausgaard

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Missing You

Harlan Coben (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_coben, http://www.harlancoben.com/) has a dedicated following. He is a New Jersey based writer of mystery and thriller novels. He won the 1996 Anthony Award in the “Best Paperback original” category for his début novel Deal Breaker, which also received an Edgar award nomination in the same category. Why not try his 2014 novel Missing You.

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