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Monday, 16th January 2012
Hold on, what am I saying? What if Kindle takes off and we end up in an all-Kindle world? And if electricity priced itself beyond us all, what then? Those ineffably cool people who’ve got... (read more)
Thursday, 12th January 2012
It was Helen of Troy that did it. In the small hours I got fed up wrestling with the miniscule print, put the book down and with a merry one-click, it was mine on Kindle. I haven’t looked... (read more)
Thursday, 12th January 2012
What’s this in my inbox? An invitation from my old friend Richard Foreman to the launch of Endeavour Press. It was only a matter of time before... (read more)
Friday, 6th January 2012
Curiosity’s got the better of me and I’ve plugged it in. (A little button on its bottom.) A digital letter comes up – ‘Dear Rosemary’, it says, ‘Kindle is a revolutionary reading device and... (read more)
Wednesday, 4th January 2012
I’d ordered it weeks ago and there it was on the doorstep, a copy of Virginia Woolf’s The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life. Amazon of course, how did we ever manage without it? And... (read more)
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'On the face of it, scriptural exegesis looks like pretty unpromising
material but, in the hands of debut novelist Rosemary Furber, it is transformed
into the basis for a gripping, plausible and beautifully written literary thriller.
Half-arsed journalist and heavy-metal nerd Patrick Price-Johnson is on
remand for the rape and murder of a woman priest. His story begins with a mundane
assignment for a local newspaper, but he soon finds himself manipulated
into detective work concerning the doctrine of Midrash in order to uncover a
Church of England scandal. This small book is nuanced, complex and wide-ranging,
taking in love, hypocrisy, despair and faith. The lyrics to songs by the
made-up heavy metal band Sword Rampant (such is Furber's attention to
detail that the group has its own website)a re worthy of Spinal Tap.' - Laura Wilson, The Guardian.
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'I looked over at her lying on the bed. At the elegant way her spine curved from the dress at her waist down to the divide of her beautiful arse.I decided to kiss her again. You won't bite me now, Helen, I thought. I'm going to kiss you, and you won't bite me again.'
Patrick Price-Johnson is on remand for the murder and intimate assault of a woman priest. His story begins with a mundane article for a local newspaper but when girlfriend Julia gets involved the stakes are raised. It's a journey that will drag him through fear, hypocrisy and despair to the darker side of love and faith and a sad question: is unrequited love the only love that lasts?
'Very wicked and beautifully written' - Maureen Freely
'A smart, surprising and eminently readable literary thriller' - Patrick Neate
'Intelligent, witty and sexy' - Caro Fraser (author of the Caper Court mysteries)
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Sweet Seventeens - a hand-bound pamphlet of tiny poems published by Lapwing in Belfast (Dec. 2010). |
Rosemary's ghost novel set in Greenwich and Blackheath (Wolfhound Press, 2005). |
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