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Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Now showing at My Book, The Movie: The Spanish Game by Charles Cumming. The entry begins:A recent review of my novel, The Spanish Game, described the central character, Alec Milius, as “excessively paranoid, a womanizer, an alcoholic, and generally of questionable morality”. It’s a fairly accurate description. Milius is an ex-MI5 agent who was drummed out of the Service following a botched...
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Library Journal News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Kick-starting LJ's inaugural "Behind the Mike" column, in which audiobook-loving library professionals interview audiobook narrators and producers, is Ophelia Lo's (Canton PL, MI) Q&A with Audie® Award winner Simon Vance (; Market Forces), who in 25 years has recorded more than 400 titles. Vance is currently reading Charles Cumming's The Spanish Game for Tantor Media (onsale date 12/15),...
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Euro Crime (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Whole Story Audio Books produce unabridged audio books on cd. New Euro Crime titles for November are: In The Dark by Mark Billingham Typhoon by Charles Cumming ( book review) Until Its Over by Nicci French ( book review) The Bellini Card by Jason Goodwin ( book review) The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Not long after reading author Charles Cumming’s reflections on Journey into Fear, by Eric Ambler--The Rap Sheet’s most recent contribution to Patti Abbott’s Friday “forgotten books” series--I received an interesting e-mail message from Cumming’s publisher, Penguin UK. It highlighted Penguin’s continuing push into the online world, and reminded me that Cumming was one of...
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
In addition to Charles Cumming’s tribute to Journey into Fear in The Rap Sheet, today brings a load of “forgotten books” posts elsewhere in the blogosphere. Some of the highlights: Bill Crider on Preacher, by Ted Thackery Jr.; James Reasoner on Rogue Cop, by William P. McGivern; Scott D. Parker on The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury; Martin Edwards on Thus Was Adonis Murdered, by Sarah...
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
(Editor’s note: This is the 29th installment of our ongoing Friday blog series highlighting great but forgotten books. Today’s selection comes from UK novelist Charles Cumming, whose novels A Spy by Nature and The Spanish Game will be published in the United States in November by St. Martin’s Press. His latest novel, Typhoon, will be released in paperback in the UK in February.) In the...
