TIM
Book Buyer and Co-owner at Tim’s Bookshops in Kew and Canterbury. I am a huge book enthusiast, mainly of crime fiction at present. I am also the singer and guitarist for the pop/rock band The Hard Covers. Favourite Childhood Book: This would be either Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson or Green Smoke by Rosemary Manning. Favourite Book of the Past Year: The Defender by GX Todd was a smart dystopian thriller I couldn't put down. I'm really looking forward to the sequel. Boy, it was a great read!! Must Buy Author: Still Donna Leon for her Venetian crime stories and Fred Vargas for her bizarre French police procedurals. Favourite Character: Ove from ‘A Man Called Ove’, Kate Shugak from Dana Stabenowski’s Alaskan crime books, Commissaire Adamsberg from Fred Vargas or Guido Brunetti from Donna Leon. Some of these people have been with me for over twenty years. |
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SCOTT
I'’ve always appreciated the power of words – perhaps this was instilled by my mother who was a kindergarten teacher. I’m at home in both the natural and virtual world. I’ve travelled a lot and am a keen bird observer (note the polarity with Kate’s favourite creature). Favourite Childhood Book: Dr. Seuss and his stablemates featured heavily in my upbringing and later I really liked the ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ series of books. Favourite Book of the Past Year: Being a child of the eighties I got a lot out of ‘Ready Player One’. It’s darker and significantly different than the film. Must Buy Author: I’m going to delve back here and say Jack Vance, particularly his ‘Tales of the Dying Earth’. George Martin cites him as a pivotal influence and I can see why. As Vance can be harder to come by these days my fallback for pure imagination and ‘what if’ premisses is Philip K. Dick. |
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