Phil Cosker's Reading Interests
Favorite Books
Recently read:
Jonathan Franzen 'Freedom', William Boyd 'Ordinary Thuderstorms', Orhan Pamuk 'The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist', Mickey Spillane 'I, the Jury'.
What I'm Reading
Currently reading Cormac Mccarthy 'Blood Meridian' what extraordinary descriptions. If I might be so bold 'American Gothic' at its best. Mccarthy's language is extraordinary seeming both from an earlier time and absolutely contemporary and very disturbing. Wonderful!
Favorite Authors
Balzac, Sartre, Camus, Turgenev, Bukowski, Chandler, Joyce, Elmore Leonard, Ian McEwan, John Updike, James Ellroy, Tom Waits, Dylan Thomas, Robert Towne - no this is impossible, too many, too many!
I keep thinking of 'Gulliver's Travels' which I love. (Peter Hewitt, Chief Executive, Arts Council England on 'Sedan - an entertainment - the part one')”
—Reverse cover jacket 'Sedan - the part two'
About Phil
Phil Cosker (1946) was born in Cardiff, Wales. He’s been fascinated by fiction since his father told him a story in bed one Sunday morning when he was a small child. It was called ‘The clue of the bloodstained putty knife’. What made it particularly thrilling...
Causes Phil Cosker Supports
Oxfam, Amnesty International
Phil’s Favorite Books
Recently read:
Jonathan Franzen 'Freedom', William Boyd 'Ordinary Thuderstorms', Orhan Pamuk 'The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist', Mickey Spillane 'I, the...