In last week’s (26.12.10) "Sunday Times" review of the year, literary editor Andrew Holgate expresses his disappointment that 2010 has seen a “lack of good new British fiction talent” – this despite the increasing popularity of university writing courses (ho hum). Andrew wonders if this is perhaps because the best writers are turning to screenwriting instead. Yeah, because there are so many more avenues for screenwriting than fiction writing, Andrew...
FYI: Legend Press has published loads of great new fiction this year, including “Ashes” by 22-year-old Mathew Crow, “The woman before me” by Ruth Dugdall, plus the latest by Nick Griffiths and a whole load of others – check Legend’s website for more details.
Oh - and Legend also published a dark, gritty novel about racial violence, existential despair and sexual perversion in a dystopian London, which was book of the month at bookgroup.info (previously won by luminaries like Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel), whose name temporarily escapes me.
The Sunday Times, of course, hasn’t reviewed a single book published by Legend Press. On the other hand, McEwan, Amis and those fab and groovy Mitford Sisters (are they a bit like the “Scissor Sisters”?) get hectares of space, as usual – go figure.
Anyway, never mind. Here’s to greater things in 2011, for me, for you, for Andrew Holgate – heck, for anyone who’s trying to make a difference – and for “emptiness”. As the great Julie Goodyear* once said: “to infinity and beyond!”
*Subs: please check source
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