Reading:
Amanda Hodgkinson, Junot Diaz, Danny Gillan, Stella Gibbons, Sarah Waters, Toni Morrison, Joseph O'Connor, Friedrich Durrenmatt, JM Coetzee, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, Patrick Neate, Italo Calvino, Hilary Mantel, Donna Tartt, Charlie Brooker, Louis de Bernieres, Thomas Harris, Jane Austen, Armistead Maupin, Nick Cave, Lucy Kellaway.
Writing:
The Beatrice Stubbs series
BEATRICE STUBBS: detective inspector, bipolar sufferer, metaphor mixer and serial survivor.
Six crime novels set all over Europe: DUE DILIGENCE - suicidal Fat Cats in Zürich; RAW MATERIAL - Pembrokeshire smugglers & the Finsbury Park Flasher; SOUR GRAPES - wine corruption in the Basque Country; SUM OF ITS PARTS - human trafficking between Italy & Croatia; COLD PRESSED - ancient vengeance meted out in the Greek Islands; THE RUSTY CORACLE - a treasure hunt along the Atlantic Arc.
More Alexander McCall Smith than Karin Slaughter.
"I've never seen such imaginative use of anchovies" - Beatrice Stubbs