‘The Street’ – Garry Douglas (Grafton Books)
Page Count: 236 Pages There’s me going on about how I can’t finish any books, at the moment, and I completely forgot that I’d actually finished a whole load (during the hiatus) and put them one side, especially for a situation like this. You can blame my memory on last week, probably this coming week as well (I think it’s going to be a rough one). But anyway… Regular visitors to the blog will know that’s there nothing I love more than rooting around in big piles of books found in second-hand bookshops. It’s like searching for buried treasure and you never know what else you’ll find during the hunt. When I was in the Faction Bookshop, a few months ago, I never expected to come across ‘The Street’ but the line on the cover about ‘The black tarmac is boiling for revenge’ caught my eye and the blurb on the back left me with no choice but to make the purchase. Have a read and tell me that you wouldn’t have done the same… Angry Asphalt… The roads that made up the new Diamond Estate w...