Reviews

The Time Out Book of London Short Stories by Mark Timlin, Robert Grossmith, Charlie Higson, Hilary Mantel, Nicola Barker, Gordon Burn, Nick Hornby, Steve Grarl, Lawrence Norfolk, Anne Billson, Will Sef, John Milne, Kim Newman, Christopher Fowler, Lisa Tuttle, Ronan Bennett, John McVicar, Chris Petit, Glyn Brown, Adam Thorpe, Nigel Watts, Maria Lexton, Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Jonathan Carrol

zefrog's review

2.0

Quite forgettable on the whole. For some odd reason, there are several stories resetting elements of the second world war in 1990's London and there is a rambling piece of non-fiction about J Maclaren-Ross. Too many of the stories fail to provide enough context for the read to actually understand what is going on and who the characters involved are. The last few stories are much better in that respect but they probably are still not worth trudging through all those preceding them.