As I mentioned in an earlier column (and referred to in this one): "I have never read a commercially published novel set in the modern world (since 1967, say) with a bisexual male protagonist who has same-sex relationships and doesn’t have to die or be redeemed!" - I'm still looking. Anyone got any pointers?
Parents seem to appear quite often in cozy crime novels. You know the kind: divorced woman moves to country village to become a baker. Many murders, hunky detective. The woman's mother and their relationship often appear. I'm reading a Simon Brett at the moment which has quite a bit about the main character's relationship with her son too and it comes up in other books in the series too. OK not high literature but it happens.
That's interesting - I don't think I've ever read a novel of that genre though I've heard of it. What would you recommend as a favourite of the type?
As I mentioned in an earlier column (and referred to in this one): "I have never read a commercially published novel set in the modern world (since 1967, say) with a bisexual male protagonist who has same-sex relationships and doesn’t have to die or be redeemed!" - I'm still looking. Anyone got any pointers?
Parents seem to appear quite often in cozy crime novels. You know the kind: divorced woman moves to country village to become a baker. Many murders, hunky detective. The woman's mother and their relationship often appear. I'm reading a Simon Brett at the moment which has quite a bit about the main character's relationship with her son too and it comes up in other books in the series too. OK not high literature but it happens.