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10 QUESTIONS: PETER BUWALDA The author of Bonita Avenue answers the ten questions we ask everyone, and talks about likeable characters, sex in fiction and coincidences.  Where did the initial idea come from? I wanted to depict a family in modern times and a clash between generations, the clash brought about by the internet. I was thinking about how young people experience their youth in comparison to mine in 1985 and how porn was then, it was something you saw once a year or so. In 2005 it was something that was there every day and it made me think that it was a public secret at the time that nobody talked about but everybody knew, and from that moment on I figured out this family and the plot. READ MORE >

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SON OF THE MORNING by Mark Adler This is fast-paced and absorbing but most of all it is as visual as a richly-coloured medieval tapestry packed with detail. Occasionally there is a degree of modern cynicism in the dialogue, which jars a little with the period but adds a welcome flash of humour. Adler's descriptions of rites and battles are vivid enough to transport you there, and "there" is a very scary place. Son of the Morning is the first in a trilogy, and if this is anything to go by the rest will be addictive must-reads. MORE >