Jefferson Chase circumnavigates the globe with this latest tome.
Around the world in nine stories – that’s about the only to describe David Mitchell’s stunningly good 1999 novel Ghostwritten.
The individual narratives, starting on a Japanese island and endin...
By Jefferson Chase
from Issue 78 published on 27/02/2009
Jefferson Chase looks at a whisky thriller
Thrillers most often focus on public events and conflicts, for example, politics, crime or warfare. But as we all know, and contrary to the cliché of domestic bliss, people’s private lives are equa...
By Jefferson Chase
from Issue 76 published on 28/11/2008
Jefferson Chase looks at a classic tale of Buddhist vengeance.
Thailand was never the sort of place where I would have imagined people drinking much whisky, but I was forced to think again when I read John Burdett’s imaginative 2003 novel Bangkok Eight.
The bo...
By Jefferson Chase
from Issue 73 published on 22/07/2008
Jefferson Chase looks at the battle between the secular and religious.
Critics didn’t much care for Hanif Kureishi’s second novel The Black Album when it appeared in 1995.
The story of a British-Pakistani university student torn between secular pleasures and Muslim ...
By Jefferson Chase
from Issue 72 published on 19/06/2008
If you want to find weirdness in America, a good place to start looking is at the fringes – the panhandles, promontories and peninsulas only tenuously connected to the rest of the US. I should know....
By Jefferson Chase
from Issue 71 published on 17/04/2008
Jefferson Chase looks at another Scottish born crime writer.
One thing cops and writers often have in common is the amount of their free time they spend in bars. Perhaps that’s why many authors of “serious” literature feel themselves drawn, at the risk of...
By Jefferson Chase
from Issue 69 published on 18/01/2008
