more nocturnal blogging….
\nsome of you may know that I’m a fan of the work of Ben Richards – one of the best thinking British novelists of recent years. I’ve just been out and bought his latest novel A Sweetheart Deal<\/i> (which I’ll need to delete off my Amazon wishlist). I’d like to reproduce some of the cover-quotes here to encourage you to read his books:
\n– “Ben Richards could be about to make history – as the first heterosexual male novelist to write a non-prurient lesbian love story…its consequences are shattering, but in unpredicatable, clever ways” (The Times)
\n– “…sidesteps the vacuity that seems to characterise a great deal of modern, London-based fiction” (Bookseller)
\n– “….Richards ranges over familiar territory, but never with the facile, lazy eye of his ‘lad’ and ‘chick-lit’ contemporaries” (The Times)
\n– “original and compelling…deserves to be read” (Independent on Sunday)
\nI’ll report back with my own opinions as I progress through the pages, but his previous novels have all been excellent, especially The Silver River<\/i> and Don’t Step on the Lines<\/i>. Form an orderly queue at your local bookshop now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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