“Sinister Street”a bildungsroman by Compton MackenzieI read the first hundred pages of this gigantic novel in awe that its sparkling text could have been written over a hundred years ago. Mirroring Joyce's near-contemporary “Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man”, “Sinister Street” goes further, bee...
The brilliant character reading that notched this up to the 3* mark; all the moonlicht nicht tonicht s were spoken with such gusto and had me laughing. One of my father's old rifle shooting team mates went off to be the gillie to a laird in the highlands and I kept seeing his face here as the crusty...