Beatniks - Toby Litt

Hospital - Toby Litt

Touching down on top of Hospital at 19:59, a young boy and an unconscious man are lifted from the air ambulance by the Trauma Team. The Trauma Team successfully saves the man while the boy falls unconscious. Awaking to an empty room, the boy finds himself naked and lonely and with an overwhelming desire to go home to see his mother. Climbing out of bed, he tries to find some clothes and a way back to his mother. Despite working closely with the Trauma Team, Gemma Swallow is still finding her new work colleagues a little weird and very distant, even the dishy surgeon Mr John Steele. How is she ever going to approach him, especially given his seemingly close friendship and working ...

Corpsing - Toby Litt

bullets matches the unexpectedly complicated circumstances that Conrad has to trace, and his detective methods are often as cutting and brutal and absurd as post mortem surgery. Toby Litt seems to employ "corpsing" in a proactive sense. Rather than simply being something that people suffer, "corpsing" can be provoked, incited. It becomes a synonym for deliberately disturbing, perturbing , and even killing, oneself and others. Conrad does all of these things in his search for the truth. I really enjoyed this book, and the "bullet" chapters are a clever trick. ...

Corpsing - Toby Litt

Unlike the previous reviewer I thought that the observations of the acting community were what made this novel. Lily, and especially her lover and his dreadful family, are brilliantly portrayed; their selfishness, arrogance and self-delusion perfectly pitched. I did agree with the previous reviewer, however, in finding the detailed descriptions of the various travels of the bullets through the body rather interesting. But the method of presenting these descriptions - as intermittent disruptions in the story - just seemed unnecessarily tricksy. As for the crime itself - it bored the hell out of me. I really didn't care who or what Lily was. Nor did I feel much sympathy ...