Aye so, some of you might’ve missed this earlier. Here’s a piece I wrote on William McIlvanney and tartan noir for today’s Guardian. It was a rush job, I only got the call late last week, quick turnaround etc, and it’s been edited pretty shoddily if I’m honest, but there you go.
Enjoy!
Dx
Aye so, here’s my cheeky wee review of Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise (Penguin) that appeared in The Scotland on Sunday at the weekend. Very interesting book. Smart guy. Statto. Don’t have a scooby why it’s got a deer and a railway track on the cover.
Delighted that I’m Crime Author of the Month for August over on the There’s Been a Murder blog run by Lynsey Adams.
There’s a big old Q&A on there, where I blether on about all sorts of guff.
Enjoy! Dx
Aye so, Gone Again received the once over from Nigel Bird at his Sea Minor blog. Nigel has been very complimentary about my work in the past. He didn’t rate Gone Again. Never mind, eh? Can’t please everyone all the time, and all that pish.
Onwards! Dx
I write a regular fortnightly book review/column thing in The Big Issue magazine, and a whole bunch of them are now online. Check em all out below:
William McIlvanney & Laura Lippman
James Salter & Karl Over Knausgaard
Enjoy! Dx
So in case you missed it over the weekend, I interviewed Denise Mina in yesterday’s Independent on Sunday. She was on cracking form. The difficulty was deciding what to leave out. Lots of chat about the graphic novels, about prostitution, and a wee rant about Jeremy Clarkson amongst the stuff that didn’t make the cut. Click on through to see what else she had to say.
Here’s my review for the Independent on Sunday of A Beautiful Truth (Granta) by Colin McAdam. It’s a novel about chimps. I really liked some of it, but really didn’t like some of it. That’s the way it goes sometimes, eh? Great cover, though.
Like I keep saying, been slack at putting these up here, so just posting this review now of Strange Bodies (Faber) by Marcel Theroux that ran in Independent on Sunday a while back. I really loved this book – a very smart and genuinely chilling literary thriller. Review here.
Been a bit slow getting my journo stuff up here recently, but here’s my Independent on Sunday review of Apocalypse Baby (Serpent’s Tail) by French author Virginie Despentes, best known for Baise-Moi. An interesting piece of transgressive fiction, but it fell apart a bit in the final third, I thought.
Aye so, been a while since the last review for Gone Again, so was well chuffed to see the inimitable Nerd of Noir giving it the once over on Spinetingler. And he rates it very highly. Very cool.
Doug Johnstone 