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Isis foiled
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 15/02/2019
» Until a few years ago, no Western publisher dared say a word against Isis, the Muslim terrorist extremists infamous for taking umbridge and reacting violently. No longer. Isis is now targeted by the media and by novelists with impunity.
A force of nature
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 28/09/2017
» Lee Child was a passable British author when he decided to try his luck in the States. It was a fortuitous decision. While the US doesn't lack detective thriller writers, he proved better than most.
Open season on IS
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 27/04/2017
» Though the president of the United States is a character in more than a few novels, he is a product of the authors' imaginations and bears little if any resemblance to the actual incumbents. In some stories he's idealised, in others vilified.
Depressing psychological thriller
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 10/02/2014
» Over Christmas, this reviewer received a number of books of a kind-boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. And conversely girl meets boy, girl loses boy, girl gets boy. In both, they end up married and live happily ever after, which is the formula for literary love stories apart from Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet in which the lovers commit suicide.
A plausible 'what if?'
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/12/2013
» A game played by children as well as adult boffins is "what if?" The possibilities are as wide as the imagination. It's fun thinking about things being different than they are. What if I found a million dollars? What if I found the cure to cancer? What if I could read your mind? What if, tragically, Hitler had won World War II.
Smoke jumpers
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 12/11/2012
» I'd thought that James Patterson, on his own and with co-authors, penned the most novels until I came across Nora Roberts. Under her own name and also the pseudonym JD Robb she has ground out 190 works of fiction to date without a co-author. To her credit, talent-wise she gives Patterson a run for his money.