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Science Fiction Book Club to meet this week.

Why Barbara Neely Is Indeed a Grand Master By Oline H Cogdill Mystery fiction has been a major part of my life since I was a child. I’ve said so many times that I have never read a Nancy Drew or a Hardy Boys—I started with Agatha Christie, Rex Stout, etc. In the beginning, these were just entertaining stories, puzzles to figure out, characters who didn’t resemble anyone I knew. But as I got older, mysteries began to encompass new writers who introduced readers to different worlds. (Thank you, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Marcia Muller.) One of those authors who brought readers to anothe...

The author and 42nd president of the United States on finding comfort in thrillers – and inspiration in William Styron, James Baldwin and Maya Angelou

In the wake of Black Lives Matter comes Black Britain: Writing Back, a series of six ground-breaking novels by overlooked, or forgotten black British writers. Selected by playwright and novelist Bernardine Evaristo who was co-winner of the Booker prize in 2019 for Girl, Woman, Other, this is a timely venture. It is also long overdue. Among Black Lives Matter’s priorities was to protest the airbrushing of black and ethnic minority voices from far distant and recent history, and Evaristo’s selection aims to make a start to rectifying literary neglect. There are countless famous and infl...