Review:
A Simple Scale
by David Llewellyn and
No Good Brother
By Tyler Keevil From Planet 233

Planet 231

Stevie Davies reviews
A Simple Scale
by David Llewellyn and
No Good Brother
by Tyler Keevil

Brood

Seren, £9.99

Have you ever caught yourself undertaking something at once ludicrous and unforgivable? You know you should stop now, this minute, but somehow or other you keep going and in any case this transgression cannot be undone. You’re a decent guy but your no-good brother has entangled you in his mission, namely to steal a priceless albino race horse and convey it across land and water from Canada to a gangster-owned ranch over the border in America. Neither of you has much clue about horses.

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About the author

Stevie Davies is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Swansea University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. Stevie has published widely in the fields of fiction, literary criticism, biography and popular history. Her latest publication is a collection of short fiction, Arrest Me, For I Have Run Away (Parthian, 2018).