‘With poems that tell stories, and stories with all the rhythmic charm of poems’ – Blue Eyed Boy Bait, Issue 1

‘Providing short, sweet and not so sweet stories and poems, the first issue of Blue Eyed Boy Bait is impressive in its range. A range of exciting writers prove that the best stories aren’t necessarily three hundred pages long and that flash fiction is an exciting, if largely unacknowledged literary development.’ Claire Sedgwick reviews Blue Eyed Boy Bait, Issue 1

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‘Pretentious condiments of Byzantium history, vague psychogeography, quotes from Chateaubriand, and oceanographic metaphors and similes’ – Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas

‘I have read two Fred Vargas books before this one: Have Mercy on Us All and The Three Evangelists. I enjoyed both and I will read more. But this novel suffers from trying too hard to be non-formulaic when serial murder is formulaic to the extreme.’ Steve Finbow reviews The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas

Posted at 10:23 am on February 7, 2010 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Review | read on

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