Oliver Harris's Blog - Posts Tagged "great-review"
New review: "4/5 - A deeply enjoyable mystery"
A new review giving Deep Shelter 4 out of 5 is up over on the Raging Biblioholism site:
"One of the more interesting successes of a novel can be when it teaches the reader something. Not in a pedantic way (not necessarily anyway) – but when the reader, intrigued by what they’ve been reading about, decides even to do a cursory Googling of a particular concept. For example: deep shelter sites in London. Oliver Harris pulls off this feat of melding a history lesson (about a relatively unknown thing) with a terrific crime/mystery plot and barely has to sacrifice any of the things that made the first Nick Belsey novel such a refreshing twist on the genre."
Read more here >> http://ragingbiblioholism.com/2014/08...
"One of the more interesting successes of a novel can be when it teaches the reader something. Not in a pedantic way (not necessarily anyway) – but when the reader, intrigued by what they’ve been reading about, decides even to do a cursory Googling of a particular concept. For example: deep shelter sites in London. Oliver Harris pulls off this feat of melding a history lesson (about a relatively unknown thing) with a terrific crime/mystery plot and barely has to sacrifice any of the things that made the first Nick Belsey novel such a refreshing twist on the genre."
Read more here >> http://ragingbiblioholism.com/2014/08...
Noirwich Festival is one of the Best Book Festivals this autumn
Oliver will be at Noirwich Festival this Wednesday evening to talk about his second novel in the DC Belsey series. Other writers featured include Val McDermid and Sophie Hannah. The festival, and Oliver himself, have been featured in this round up of the hottest book festivals this season >> http://www.high50.com/culture/article...
For more details on the Noirwich crime fiction festival, check out this link: http://www.writerscentrenorwich.org.u...
For more details on the Noirwich crime fiction festival, check out this link: http://www.writerscentrenorwich.org.u...
