Moon Over Soho

By Ben Aaronovitch,

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I was my dad's vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea, and that's how I know my Argo from my Tempo. And it's why, when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognised the tune it was playing. Something violently…

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2 authors picked Moon Over Soho as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love reading books that look underneath what is shown to most people—how things work behind the scenes, or a glimpse into a different world.

This book takes what we think is a modern-day world and gives it a bit of a twist, with a special division of the London police charged with handling supernatural crimes that take place, well, in plain sight.

The thing that was most intriguing about this narrator was that I had the feeling I was learning with him about all the ghosts and goblins and beasties as he discovered them. I was as surprised as…

I’m going very literal here – this book is about both jazz and magic.

PC Peter Grant is called in when the body of a part-time jazz drummer is found dead in a club in Soho. Strangely, the old jazz standard Body and Soul can be heard emanating from the body… I love Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series.

This is the second instalment of Peter Grant’s adventures which combine the supernatural with police procedural and usually a hefty dollop of London folklore. Addictive once you get started! 

From Louise's list on capturing the magic of jazz.

Curiosity and the Cat

By Martin Treanor,

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Martin Treanor Author Of The Logos Prophecy

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Curiosity is certain she saw fairies at the bottom of the garden. Little does she know . . . they saw her first.

Emotionally abandoned by her mother and infatuated by a figurine of a fairy ballerina she discovers in an old toy shop, eight-year-old Curiosity Portland steals the figurine, unleashing strange and frightening happenings around her home, which, in turn, reveals a disturbing family history. 

An ominous tale of faerie folk.

Curiosity and the Cat

By Martin Treanor,

What is this book about?

Curiosity is certain she saw fairies at the bottom of the garden. Little does she know . . . they saw her first.

Emotionally abandoned by her mother and infatuated by a figurine of a fairy ballerina she discovers in an old toy shop, eight-year-old Curiosity Portland steals the figurine, unleashing strange and frightening happenings around her home, which, in turn, reveals a disturbing family history.

An ominous tale of faerie folk.



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