Jack Reacher or David Copperfield—everything can go pear-shaped halfway through the book...
Tag: orphan
Another teenage wizard!
I’m a slow, messy writer. Ideas get jammed into the narrative, then hacked bloodily out. But Mortal does at least deal with the most important question left hanging over by the previous books: how, at the tender age of five, Frank came to kill his father…
The plot folds: Wilkie Collins’ No Name
Wilkie Collins’ No Name kicks off with a plot fold so elegant, so beautifully crafted, that it induces an almost electric jolt of pleasure
Four seagulls and a dove: a sad story
The first sign of trouble was when we got dive-bombed by an angry adult seagull...