I am a biographer. These are my thoughts on a number of topics: my role as chair at Lincoln Drill Hall and of the Lincoln Book Festival. I also write on the plight of refugees, the EU and book reviews. My other blogs http://williamsmithwilliams.co.uk talk about my biography of William Smith Williams who was first to recognise the genius of Charlotte Bronte and http://www.philwilliamswriter.co.uk about my books on how the army was supplied in the world wars, Ordnance and War on Wheels
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Ordinary Thunderstorms
I met William Boyd at the London Book Fair and had been looking forward to reading this book in spite of some reviews which cast a little doubt over its quality. I think that what he achieves in this book is significant. There is the tension that you would expect from what is I suppose a thriller. It comes very early on and I worried a little that it might lose strength. However, the energy is maintained by the introduction of deep characters and the slow emergence of the 'real' plot. There is revealing description of low life London. It is a book that takes you out of a safe place into one outside normal society.
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