Stories By Jem Bloomfield
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Great Britain
Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
June 5, 2020Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...
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Crime Fiction
The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
May 31, 2020Hill has written far fewer books about the black Luton lathe operator turned PI, but The...
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Crime Fiction
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
May 28, 2020There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...
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Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
May 28, 2020Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
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Espionage
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
May 22, 2020The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
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Crime Fiction
The Right Side of the Tracks
May 15, 2020Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
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Crime Fiction
Lots in a Name
May 9, 2020Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
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Crime Fiction
Gentlemen and Players
May 5, 2020Yet it is the amateur, the eccentric and the outsider who plays the hero in the...
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Fiction Reviews
The Solution to History
May 2, 2020These days the historical mystery buff can choose from works featuring Owen Archer, Prioress Eleanor, Petroc...
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Fiction Reviews
Who Didn’t Do It?
April 30, 2020The “golden age” of detective fiction, which began roughly with Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles,...
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