Good News Bad News - David Wolstencroft

After being thoroughly unimpressed by David Wolstencrofts second novel I had no intentions of looking for this one but when I spotted it lurking on pile at a recent carboot sale for mere pennies (and I had just found a fiver in the ashtray of my car) I decided to give it a try. Wolstencroft was one of the team behind the tv show Spooks so it will be no surprise to learn that his books follow the other people in the same line of work. Good News Bad News, opens with two men tossing a coin to make a phone call, as one of the men goes to the phonebox to make the call a motorcycle appears on the street and blows the whole thing up. From this ...  Read the complete review

Good News Bad News was the debut novel of David Wolstencroft and overall it was a very enjoyable read and this was made even more so for me as the reviews I had read about it on Amazon had been quite mixed, in fact they tended to replicate the title of the book depending on the reviewers opinion and this meant that my expectations were not that high. The title of the book comes from a thinking game played by one of the characters where one person presents the upside of an action and the other gives the bad side and you progress a chain of thought back and forward. For example the good news is you have a car to escape in, the bad news is you have lost the key, the good ...  Read the complete review