by David West | Dec 20, 2022 | News
Are book awards a good recommendation? If you’ve read my recent posts, you’ll know that I’ve tried to read Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize winners. I did finish Wolf Hall, but gave up on Bring Up The Bodies. Her use of language is outstanding, but the story wasn’t...
by David West | Dec 18, 2022 | News
I have read just over a fifth of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize winner, Bring Up The Bodies, and I’m giving up. Life’s too short. Yes the language is beautiful, but it’s not a page-turner. If I want beautiful language I can read poetry. There has to be something in a...
by David West | Dec 16, 2022 | News
I am reading Bring Up The Bodies, by Hilary Mantel. She has won two Booker Prizes.She won her first with Wolf Hall. Bring Up The Bodies provided the second. I read Wolf Hall around ten years ago, sadly I can’t truthfully say that I enjoyed it. Mantel uses the device...
by David West | Dec 14, 2022 | News
I thank my friend and former colleague, Barry Biggs, for sending me an article about a disappointing book signing. Chelsea Banning attended a book signing for her debut novel, Of Crowns and Legends. Unfortunately, or perhaps very fortunately, only two people turned...
by David West | Dec 13, 2022 | News
ACX published The Suggested Assassin audiobook today. So all four of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures so far are now available as audiobooks. I thank Simon De Deney for doing such a great job of narration and production. I’m looking forward to working with him on...
by David West | Dec 11, 2022 | News
I don’t have much writing news for you today. Called to Account is now available as an audiobook, while The Suggested Assassin is still pending ACX review. The biography of Cardinal Richelieu hasn’t been delivered yet. I want to digest that, and consider him alongside...
