For Ten Years This Important Image Of An Ecstatic Death Among Books Featured on the Homepage of My Website

to survive a destructive book is no less painful
for the reader than for the author
 
Featured Volumes:
 
LF Celine: Voyage to the End of the Night / Death on Credit / Guignol's Band / Rigadon
 
Wyndham Lewis: Men Without Art / The Complete Wild Body / The Apes of God
 
Giacomo Leopardi: Operette Morali
 
Thomas Bernhard: The Loser / The Voice Imitator / Extinction / Gathering Evidence / Wittgenstein's Nephew

My favourite passage in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped is the episode in which David Balfour is shipwrecked on the island of Erraid.  I sometimes think that Kidnapped goes downhill after the Erraid sequence.  There is the hike across Mull and then the chasing through the heather, none of which attends the climatic drama of the early chapters, and the plot settles into true road-movie territory. Whenever I read the book, I always find myself returning to that old Erraid magic!

Stealing Fire, by Craig Sterling Published poet and thriller writer James W Wood, was printed by myself in 2011.