Terry Pratchett - "A stroke of the pen"

old stories, some published under a pseudonym.

Definitely Pratchett style, but lacking the finesse.

Sebastian Barry - "Old God's Time"

it's good but it's not easy to read.  I imagine it's like "Ulysses", all hidden references etc. long trains of thoughts, but they do make sense if you're willing to throw yourself into it. A copper, ugly past of Catholic priest's abuse, his wife the same....

But that evening, sitting on the plastic chairs, with the electric lights fizzing and humming in the refurbished airport lounge - didn't he remember well the old airport, a scimitar of concrete as graceful as a cruise ship, where all sorts had arrived in vanished days, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ronnie Delany after the Olympics - that evening it wasn't important if he had got there or not, because his son, which was his destination really, was going back to New Mexico to work, and he, old Tom Kettle, detective sergeatn extraordinaire, as in, never promoted beyond that rank, but still valued - he hoped - he was to be left behind. It wasn't as if his son was going, but as if he himself were going. The world would continue to form around Joseph, and retreat from him. Joseph would drink his fizzy water on the flight, and look out the darkening and brightening porthole, at new cloud-lands and land-lands, maybe drop by drop, bit by bit, not forgetting his father exactly, but sort of losing him. As if his father were going away, further and further, and at length beyond retrieval.

Zaho De Sagazan - "La Fontaine de Sang"

amazing sad haunting song.

"Trístesse" is a bit