Paul Kilduff again

Recent purchased my second Paul Kilduff novel. My second in the order of discovery, his first in the order of production: Square Mile (1999).

Here is his explanation of how he came to write it.

A literary academic wrote of this book especially, and of Kilduff in general: "Such attention to detail clearly suggests that these novels are read as part of a professional discourse. The frank and detailed corrections that they inspire from their readers seem to suggest nothing less than the reflection of the pedagogical tone that the novels themselves frequently employ as they provide detailed and comprehensive accounts of the world of trading: even readers who are not inside the business are encouraged to feel as if they are. Indeed, publishers' acounts of the reading habits of City workers suggests how difficult this market has become and note that 'City fiction' (rather than professional guides or 'guru' texts) have become 'the only way' publishers can make 'real money' in the City."

That literary academic is Nicky Marsh, a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Southampton, and the book whence I've just quoted is "Money, Speculation and Finance in Contemporary British Fiction," (2007).

I've been writing about finance day by day or week by week for nine years now, with a fair amount of attention to the London venue in which Kilduff sets his tales, but there is still much to learn, and this is a painless way to learn it. Higher pretensions than that the books can not make, nor will I make such pretension for them.