3:AM Top 5: Matt Coyle
Matt Coyle is a Tasmanian-based graphic novelist and artist, and the creator of Registry of Death and Worry Doll. Six years in the making, Worry Doll is described as “an inspired piece of gothic noir disguised as a children’s book”, and has drawn comparisons to the works of David Lynch and Violent Cases by Neil […]
The Missing Links
In Boarding-house blues, David Lodge considers The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton: “Hamilton is a realistic novelist, with obvious roots in the English tradition, and an eclectic technique. He is sometimes compared to Dickens, whom he read with enthusiasm from an early age, and there is certainly a Dickensian quality in his comic characterisation […]