ben aaronovitch

[high eight]

I've just had a look at Ben's website, and he's currently reading the Merrily Watkins books by Phil Rickman, and thoroughly enjoying them.

If they're good enough for Ben.....

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_nos ... ly+Watkins

I can't get on with those at all. The Vicar of Dibley as written by a collaboration between Stephen King & Agatha Christie.

And Merrily Watkins' daughter needs a good slapping - she is one of the most annoying characters in literature.

Just my opinion.

[Bouncy Castle]

Haven't finished the first one yet, so can't comment.......... yet!!

[Quatermass]

I mentioned in another thread that I read Rivers of London. I felt it was a quite good, rather than a great, book, and the twist as to who the culprit at the end was quite a novel one. Unfortunately, I felt that Aaronovitch's pinnacle, as far as I read, was with his novelisation of his own Doctor Who story, Remembrance of the Daleks.

I have read four of his books, actually. Besides the aforementioned novelisation and Rivers of London, I have read his Doctor Who New Adventures, Transit and The Also People.

[chris.ph]

new book coming out called broken homes, just preordered it

[Bouncy Castle]

Ben Aaronovitch has stormed the bestseller list with his superb London crime series. A unique blend of police procedural, loving detail about the greatest character of all, London, and a dash of the supernatural.

In the new novel DC Peter Grant must head south of the river to the alien environs of Elephant and Castle. There's a murderer abroad and, as always when Grant's department are reluctantly called in by CID, there is more than a whiff of the supernatural in the darkness.

Full of warmth, sly humour and a rich cornucopia of things you never knew about London, Aaronovitch's series has swiftly added Grant's magical London to Rebus' Edinburgh and Morse's Oxford as a destination of choice for those who love their crime with something a little extra.

Out (or at least the electronic edition will be sent to your Kindle) on 27th June.

[Catch-up]

No release date over here yet. Hope I don't have to wait too long!