Hunting out a book to lend to a friend, I stumbled over Melvyn Bragg’s excellent biography of Richard Burton Rich: The Life of Richard Burton. This in turn reminded me of a wonderful quote of Burton’s I read in the newspaper absolutely ages ago. Apparently the Burtons didn’t travel light – Richard always took a Read More
Day: May 27, 2009
This novel snaps, crackles and pops with electricity
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt This Orange prize short-listed novel has had some mixed reviews. To be honest, it’s a bit of a mixture itself, refusing to be easily genrified being: part fictionalised biography of mad physicist Nikola Tesla, part love story, part time-travel SF/fantasy, and part mainstream novel set in New Read More