Psychoville - Christopher Fowler

Sometimes, finding a new author can be like falling in love. You just know, not far into the first book, that you've found someone you want to be spending a lot of time with, and that you'll be with them for life. And you remember that first meeting forever. It had happened to me before with Stephen King, and it's happened since with Christopher Brookmyre. But with Christopher Fowler it was different. It was love at first sight, and it was a love destined to last. This was true love, and I fell hard. It happened in Ottakars bookshop in Enfield town on a cold Saturday afternoon in late November 1997. I was trying to get Christmas presents for ...  Read the complete review

Welcome to the heart of England’s nouveau riche in Invicta Cross; please enter at your own discretion to a leafy suburbia where the freshly groomed gardens provide a picturesque backdrop to that glorious summer sun and the smell of cut grass is quick to mask the distinctly unpleasant aroma of artifice. This is the world where even the Joneses must offer deference to the en vogue upwardly mobile, daahling, the areas where chintz curtains twitch with a feverish suspicion and almost orgasmic anticipation at the arrivals of newcomers, ready to judge and cast out those who simply ‘aren’t our type of people’. Welcome to Psychoville. This is the ...  Read the complete review