The festive season has given me a rare opportunity to poke about on other blogs and see what’s happening:
- The Quack Doctor suggests a useful diet aid in Allan’s Anti-Fat fluid. It was made from bladder wrack, which isn’t quite as disgusting as it sounds.
- Acclaimed neo-Victorian novelist Lee Jackson has published his latest book, The Diary of a Murder, online.
- I am still fulminating over the Guardian Books Blog post that dares to suggest the Sherlock Holmes stories aren’t very good. An outrage.
- Valancourt Books are poised to publish Bulwer Lytton’s Eugene Aram in the New Year and have also announced their decision to donate half of the 2009 profits to Lamda Legal, who are trying to halt the worrying increase in US anti-gay legislation. Another reason to buy their excellent new editions of forgotten Victorian novels.
- I heartily concur with Vulpes Libris’ glowing review of Charles Palliser’s The Quincunx – possibly the best ever neo-Victorian thriller? Certainly the longest.
- Queen Victoria makes a surprise appearance on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square.
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I read The Quincunx during the Christmas holidays of 1990 and it was so unputdownable that I almost started to hate the book. It would not leave me alone until I had finished it. Definititely the best neo-Victorian thriller I ever read.
Hello Anna. Yes, unputdownable is certainly the word for it! I remember becoming very cross if anyone had the temerity to speak to me while I was reading it.
Ooh, well that’s quite a recommendation! I haven’t read it (although I have heard tell of it) but I think I might be popping out with some leftover Christmas money to see if I can lay my grubby little paws on it.
I have just this minute taken delivery of a copy of The Quincunx. I’m holding you two to account should I hate it.
Oh dear, I suddenly feel a great weight of responsibility! However, I am absolutely certain that you’ll love it and won’t leave the house ’til it’s finished.
It’s probably just as well I have another 5 days before I go back to work!
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