Lightening Men

Lightening Men   by Thomas Mullen This is Mullen’s fifth novel, and a real beauty. Set in 1950’s Atlanta, it deals with the violent racism that permeated the entire society, and is very relevant today as neo-Nazism and white supremacism rear their ugly heads in the most public way in the USA. There are a […]

The Reason You’re Alive

The Reason You’re Alive   by Matthew Quick This gem of a novel came out of nowhere and landed on my desk, and I’m glad. Vietnam War veteran, David Granger is 68 and has just had his twin removed from his brain, literally. Poor David was said to have absorbed his unfortunate sibling and no one […]