Description: Spotlight on Nordic / Scandinavian crime fiction... and connections
Spotlight on Nordic / Scandinavian crime fiction… and connections
My introduction to David Bowie came through Let’s Dance album which totally blew me away. This was completely opposite to Paul Burston’s opinion who regards this era in Bowie’s career as nothing so special. Bowie saved his life much earlier… But I lived in a different part of the world and in a different type of society, and was not aware of the various difficulties that punctuated lives of people like him. I listened to the same type of music as a teenager yet I was unaware of any nuances, of all colours,
We all have heard the energising song We Can Be Heroes and used these words to make them fit with what we had to do or wanted to achieve. Burston lives them every single day. I knew of him as a crime fiction writer, and his novel The Closer I Get (Orenda Books 2019), inspired by real-life events, was quite a revelation of twisty unsettling emotions and compulsive behaviours. His autobiography covers all relevant themes of the times; music, art, culture – and activism, politics, social challenges and social