Guests this week were Brian Lowen and Malcolm Martland and authors being reviewed were Joseph Conrad, John Katzenbach, Sebastian Faulks & Julian Stockwin.
Coincidence you should be doing the Sebastian Faulks Malcolm, with all the news about MGM going bust and stopping the filming of James Bond (Faulks wrote 'Devil May Care', a Bond novel) so what will Bond do now he's out of work - Waiter?
Well, Brian, I could find no reviews for the Stockwin so I lifted the first sentence from the authors webpage: "His Majesty’s brig-sloop Teazer eased sheets and came around prettily for the last leg of the short passage from Polperro eastwards to Plymouth Sound". What a surprise, I was in Polperro, part of the weekend, what a lovely place. In fact I have a romantic tale about a young couple there. We saw the man go down on one knee and reach for the young ladys hand,
from across the harbour, so assumed he was either suffering with cramp or proposing. After having partaken of liquid refreshment in the local pub on the quay we happened to bump into them. The story was that they were on their way to Rome so he could propose but they were volcanised and never went. His brother suggested they went to Polperro instead as it was such a lovely place, they did and she accepted his proposal (aawwhh!).
I was perusing the literary awards when I came upon : The 'Lost Man Booker Prize from 1970' (where do they think them up from.. and what will be next - 'The Best Book Left On The Shelves' award??). Anyway, this is what it said:
In 1971, just two years after it began, the Booker Prize ceased to be awarded retrospectively and became - as it is today - a prize for the best novel of the year of publication. At the same time the award moved from April to November and, as a result, a wealth of fiction published for much of 1970 fell through the net and was never considered for the prize.
So, if you want to vote for one of the 6 shortlisted then go online before 30th April.
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