Judging a book by its cover, I picked up a copy of The Smoke, by Tony Broadbent and found myself transported to London, 1947 and immersed in the life of a creeper, London slang for a cat burglar. Our narrator, Jethro, is witty– a bit of a rogue, he is –and makes no excuses for …
As I write this, it’s November 5, and it’s raining. These two things together make me think of England. I spent ten weeks in Britain in college, on a school literary trip abroad with twenty-odd other students, chaperoned by our literature professor and his wife. The purpose was to put us inside the literature we studied …
“I have just ‘discovered’ Anne Perry, a very prolific writer. My first taste of Ms Perry’s works was The Face of a Stranger, the first book featuring William Monk. The setting is London after the Crimean War (late 1850s). As the story opens, Monk is in a hospital and has no idea who he is …
