"It was quiet in the room. After a while the man behind his desk lowered his hands and folded them in his lap. Mr Ballard, he said. Yo...

Going into the world of Cormac McCarthy is always dark, earthy and usually disturbing in the graphical portrayal of violence and sex. Chil...

This was an incredibly easy book to get through despite the subject matter. Despite the italicised start and the slight disorientation that ...

There is a scene towards the end of the book that turns out to be the climax of the hunt for the missing child. The three mysterious men who...

The brother is hunting the sister and she is hunting their child. Chapters alternate with their progress with both begging for food and work...

Welcome back to the world of Cormac McCarthy with the italicised [passages and pages of dialogue devoid of speech marks. But also welcome ba...

The Road is one of those books that gets talked about over a hot dog at a friends barbeque or in the pub. For most people I spoke to it was ...

The ending of The Road reminds you of the wonder of a great book. By the end you are immersed in this burnt out world where ash, darkness a...

Unless the last 60 pages of this book go totally wrong this is going to be a cracker of a book. This is what literature should be all about....

There are some really big questions being asked by McCarthy all the time in The Road . If there is no such thing as God – if the dead world ...

Despite the tension that has developed between the father and son walking through the post apocalyptic wilderness there is a moment of brigh...

Most of the time when you take a break from reading a book and slide in the bookmark it takes a couple of minutes and maybe a couple of page...

This book is shaping up to be one of my favourites of the year, if not the favourite. The reason is that it is almost impossible to stop rea...

This is the final part of the Border trilogy by Cormac McCarthy and it reunites the main characters from the first two books All the Pretty...

Just as you expect with McCarthy the minute the story winds up on Mexican soil for any length of time the blood begins to flow. The first vi...

Whenever you read a McCarthy book you always sense that there are moments that carry great symbolic weight. The problem is that when most of...

The problem with the determination of John Grady to marry and rescue his Mexican sweetheart from the brothel and bring her back to the ranch...

The final part of the Border Crossing trilogy reunites the characters from the first two books. John Grady and Billy Parham are both working...

This is the second in the Border trilogy by Cormac McCarthy and there are several similarities with the first book All the Pretty Horses . ...

The book comes to an end leaving you in a similar position to the end of All the Pretty Horses with a young man far from home in surrounded ...