CHRIS WEST

M usic plays a key role in my novel ‘The Enlightenment Club’, so I thought I’d compile a playlist for it. Requiem by WA Mozart. Introit...

Yesterday might well have been the Last Day of Summer. Sunny but not relentlessly so – a smattering of fleecy clouds – a bit of breeze,...

I went to Oxford yesterday – purely as a tourist – and enjoyed wandering around the beautiful old buildings, designed as places where...

The Hero’s Journey is a staple in therapy / personal development – not to mention Hollywood scriptwriting. It begins with the ‘hero’ (of...

As one gets older, one’s teenage heroes start dying. Especially in music, most of them have vanished from the public eye for years – how...

I must admit, my preferred type of crime story is reasonably hard-edged. I’ve been reading George Pelecanos recently, and loving it....