illustration by Dom McKenzie
Here’s my review of The Cartel by Don Winslow in The Big Issue magazine. Taken together with its predecessor, The Power of the Dog, it’s one of the most impressive literary achievements I’ve ever read. Simply astonishing stuff. My review doesn’t really do it justice, to be honest.
illustration by Dom McKenzie
Here are my Big Issue reviews of cracking non-fiction by Suzanne O’Sullivan and Stephen Witt books, about health and music respectively.
I’d love to do an acoustic covers set of songs by Wilco, Sparklehorse, The Weakerthans, Low, Eels. Thing is, would anyone want to watch it? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Here‘s my review in the Independent on Sunday of the rather excellent new novel by Cathi Unsworth, a period noir set in wartime London.
illustration by Dom McKenzie
Here are my reviews in The Big Issue of new novels by two veterans of Nordic Noir, Gunnar Staalesen and Karin Fossum. Both excellent, in summary.
It has been brought to my attention that my latest novel, The Dead Beat, is now only 99p on Amazon, Kobo and iTunes. I don’t know how long this state of affairs will continue, but it means you can get my last three books for a total of £2.17. Much cheapness.
So I’m going to be on The Janice Forsyth Show today on Radio Scotland, around 2pm, discussing James Robertson’s The Testament of Gideon Mack for their bookclub. Tune in here.
Doug Johnstone 
