Books set in Scandinavia by Kathie Johnson
Books set in Scandinavia: by Kathie Johnson
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Books set in Scandinavia: by Kathie Johnson
How a cinema-obsessed Raymond Chandler fan from Humber invented a genre – then fell apart
Reading Henry Treece’s The Green Man, which climaxes in a long spasm of apocalyptic violence — death by sword, buildings on fire, women eaten by pigs, that sort of thing — it’s startling to remember that the author lived out his professional life as a well-liked schoolteacher and after his retirement gave history lectures to children. “He was such a stimulating person to talk to,” commented one librarian less than a month before his death in 1966. Green Man is a mash-up of Hamlet and Beowulf, drunk, savage, breathless, even laughing at its own atrocities, a strange and little-kn...