Acceleration

"The first time I went into my publisher’s office I saw this book with a fantastic cover – Graham McNamee is quite famous in Canada and he writes these fantastic books. He’s a total recluse and he doesn’t do any publicity or any marketing and he only writes a book about every four years and his books are really good. Acceleration was the first one I read. See what you think. I was awed by it and thought it was the sort of thing I could do and it appeals to my kind of audience. He wrote another book called Bonechiller a couple of years later, but he’s just really, really obscure. When you compare Bonechiller to all the other vampire books around at the moment, this is so much better. It’s about a kid who gets a summer job in a lost and found department in a metro station somewhere in Canada . I think it’s Toronto but I might be wrong. It’s very dark and creepy. Basically what he does is he finds something in the lost and found, this German logbook or whatever, that he thinks is related to a murder and he starts to investigate it. It’s very atmospheric with lots of dank tunnels and it’s a really well written book. It’s a real shame because it should be huge. It’s an absolutely brilliant book and I just loved it to bits."