by Geoffrey Household
“I had parted, obviously and irrevocably, with a lot of my living matter.” It is 1938 and an unnamed Englishman on a shooting holiday in Poland decides on a whim to nip across the border and add the head of a certain European dictator to his trophy wall. That’s the pre-title sequence. What follows i...
bookshelves: published-1939, summer-2010, mystery-thriller, re-read, adventure, classic Recommended for: BBC7 listeners Read from August 16 to 27, 2010 Read by Michael Jayston. Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 1:30pm Monday 16th August 20102:02pm Monday 23rd August 2010Categories:Drama, ThrillerI enc...
”I hold no brief for the pre-war spartan training of the english upper class--or middle class as it is now the fashion to call it, leaving the upper to the angels--since in the ordinary affairs of a conventional life it is not of the slightest value to anyone; but it is of use on the admittedly rare...
The man is hunted down like an animal. Household's narrator, an unnamed distinguished hunter, drops right into his situation at the start of his record - the whole novel is a journal written at various stages in his notebook. It accomplishes being both immediate and has the virtue of being able to r...
(clickerty)Read by Michael Jayston. Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 1:30pm Monday 16th August 2010Duration:30 minutesAvailable until:2:02pm Monday 23rd August 2010Categories:Drama, ThrillerI encountered this ,oooh, maybe a decade or more ago and seeing as teh beeb was offering I dived in again hoping to f...
Heard about this book at Bouchercon. Thriller author David Morrell touted it the Thrillers: 100 must reads panel. Did not really do much for me though. Not a lot a character development. Pretty much just straight action.
I love books where the hunted digs a hole in the ground or hillside and hides there with his supplies. I also have the urge to burrow, so I’m enthralled by the measurements from floor to ceiling, what the walls are made of, the tools, food, as well as the methods of going to the bathroom and enjoyin...
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