9/11 Reading: "The Submission" by Amy Waldman

After my recent foray into "urban fantasy", something meatier, picked up, like so much else lately, from the podcast "Inside the New York Times Book Review" - this episode. (Fear not, by the way, I didn't read this book in one day, I was just very slow producing the last review.) The NYT touted Amy Waldman's book as perhaps - finally - being the "definitive" 9/11 book, the literary response to an event now ten years old which would somehow put a finger on what that event meant for New York and America more widely. 

Magical police reading: "The Rivers of London" by Ben Aaronovitch

Just now and then, a combination of cover design, blurb and the mood of the moment induces a serendipitous book purchase. This is one reason I hope that bookshops never disappear - this can't happen in the same way on Amazon. The bookshop in question was (again!) the small Foyles in St Pancras railway station, which is developing a talismanic status as the home of the random purchase.