Overview of the British taste for true crime and crime novels. I say British: Worsley makes a big deal of how it's a super special national obsession Overview of the British taste for true crime and crime novels. I say British: Worsley makes a big deal of how it's a super special national obsession while not actually drawing comparisons with any other countries' taste for true crime and detective novels to indicate what makes it 'British'.
It's also a bit sloppy with a taste for random assertions and odd turns of phrase. My copy is dog eared with ??? notes. Points for the reference to 'William Coleridge', though at least it's not paired with Samuel Taylor Wordsworth. And mostly it just rubbed me the wrong way with the extremely dismissive attitude towards the subject matter. Worsley makes it clear that melodrama was shit and we clever moderns would now see it as absurd, public murder obsessions were creepy, most of the Golden Age writers weren't very good, etc etc, like we have to be told that she's more intellectual than this nonsense.
Fun French-set historical epistolary fantasy novel, with two nonbinary leads, one of whom can change their body by magic. Lots of bonking plus a feistFun French-set historical epistolary fantasy novel, with two nonbinary leads, one of whom can change their body by magic. Lots of bonking plus a feisty magical subplot and a very tender romance. Highly enjoyable, wittily told and nicely written, with terrific sense of place and time. ...more
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