Andrew Taylor

The mask of death | 17 January 2019

Noon’s constantly surprising novel takes the form of a police procedural, but pushes it in many unexpected directions

issue 19 January 2019

  • Slow Motion Ghosts

    Jeff Noon

    Doubleday, pp. 371

Here is a novel set in the no man’s land between past and present, a fertile and constantly shifting territory whose precise boundaries are unique for each reader. Its author, Jeff Noon, is probably best known for his intellectually adventurous science fiction (his first novel, Vurt, won the Arthur C.

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