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Ian Mond
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I write reviews for Locus Magazine. I had a podcast called Writer and the Critic which I co-hosted with Kirstyn McDermott. The episodes are out there. I love the Carlton Football club. What more do you need to know!?
Having said that. The decision to say on has been well and truly justified.
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s annoying, but I would have declared. Do the thing the other side doesn’t want you to do.
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Yes. It’s sad.
December 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Didn’t they both die. He certainly did.
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
That should have been my entire review.
November 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
You mean Travball.
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
That innings was something a bit special.
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Thanks! A late addition to the review.
November 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Also, it’s a Western and follows the conventions of the Western—the outsider, the posse, the showdown, a deep love of horses—but in unexpected ways. In short: it’s a novel that’s harking back to storytelling of old—both the Western and the epic.
November 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
You’ll know within 50 pages. I read a converted PDF copy where every fi word had the “i” missing and it didn’t slow me down. But not everyone likes the folksy voice. The book reads as a response to the cynicism is contemporary fiction.
November 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Yep, I loved it. Big hearted, sentimental novel. Won’t be for everyone.
November 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I really didn’t like Flashlight. Found it ponderous and the mystery was clear to me from the outset. Liked Flesh more than you did. I really enjoyed Audition, has a Lynchian quality which I jive with. Read later in an interview that Lynch was an inspiration.
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Not read it myself, but heard only good things about it.
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Wrote this rather popular book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tra...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM