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  • We’re hitting the road!

    We’re hitting the road!

    29th September 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this

    Coming twenty years after his first novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, Nick Cave's latest offering, The Death of Bunny Munro, is sure to shock and appall. Buckle up, you're in for a bumpy ride.

    Bunny Munro is not a nice guy. A relentless misogynist, his infidelities cause his wife Libby to commit suicide in the first few chapters, and the rest of the novel is spent peddling his seedy...

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  • The year of magical thinking

    The year of magical thinking

    6th July 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Recently acquired a set of Fourth Estate's 25th anniversary limited-edition hardbacks, one of which – The year of magical thinking – is pictured above. Theatre designer Bob Crowley is responsible for the cover, fitting since he worked on the book's stage adaptation.

    Superstition is, I think, something that most of us court at one time or another, I used to believe in what I liked to call the 'cosmic seesaw'. This meant...

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