Monthly Archives: January 2011

Crosshatching worlds – Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s The Fallen Blade

Venice, La Serenissima, exerts a strange gravitational hold on writer’s imaginations. Jamila Gavin’s excellent Blood Stone (earlier post here), Marcus Sedgwick‘s My Swordhand is Singing, and Michelle Lovric‘s The Undrowned Child use the city as a crossing zone. Jeanette Winterson’s … Continue reading

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