A shiver down my spine – Robert Jackson Bennett’s Mr Shivers

Robert Jackson Bennett’s debut novel, Mr Shivers, plays out to a sound track of a demented Ennio Morricone or Nick Cave against the 1930s dustbowl. Marcus Connelly is hunting down Mr Shivers, a scarred man who leaves death in his tracks.
As he traverses across the rusty, dust covered arteries (the heart f’urring slowly under its [...]

New Russell Hoban books on the horizon

Catching up at the moment and heard that Russell Hoban has a new children’s novel coming from Walker books in 2011 called “Soonchild”. The Ocelot Factory website has further details and carries a very brief extract (three paragraphs) but it appears to a fable. Bloomsbury are publishing Angelica Lost and Found next year.