I’ve read the opening paragraph of a dozen books on here this afternoon, and this is the first one that I felt inclined to carry on with. There’s an interesting feeling of tension here between ideals and realities, a straining between rural continuity and change. Davy Green made me think of the toot... view book

I liked Cleopatra amongst the dirty dishes. Your writing has a friendly rhythm and I enjoyed the company of the violet-eyed girl who distances herself from the griminess of life. It made me think of Billy Liar and Van Morrison growling G-L-O-R-I-A. She is rather splendid your Glory. I’d like to foll... view book

Nice cocktail this – the polite artistic aspirations, the Shakespeare, the rock n’roll and the sudden shock of spewed obscenities. There’s a transitional feel to your first chapter that beckons the reader into the story. Great sense of time and place and a through-young-eyes excitement. I wish that ... view book

The River Wee? What an awfully silly book this is… and I am very fond of silly. It starts with some scrumptious antique vocabulary. Great fun. I award you several smirks and a snigger. Bravo, sir. view book

Succinct characterisation in your first chapter. There’s an efficiency and confidence to your style. Your second chapter, then, gives us a distinctly different voice and an appealingly rich breadth of reference; I enjoyed that mixing of the familiar European with more foreign scents and colours. I’d... view book