Michael Paraskos

Like Birdsong – only cheerful

2 August 2014 9:00 am

It is difficult to know whether Clive Aslet intended a comparison between his debut novel, The Birdcage, set in Salonica…

What would Raymond Chandler do?

3 May 2014 9:00 am

If the inclusion of the erstwhile master of the genre, Raymond Chandler, as a fictonalised character in a pastiche 1930s…

Philip Marlowe returns with bark but no bite

5 April 2014 9:00 am

With so much Nordic noir around, it’s a relief to return to the granddaddy of them all, the hard-boiled private…

What a coincidence

12 October 2013 9:00 am

If you are going to read a novel that plays with literary conventions you want it written with aplomb. In…