Knights and Emeralds

The book of the Warner Bros./Goldcrest/Puttnam film -- you missed it too? Or is it not out yet? -- told almost entirely in the present tense. witch I found immensely irritating at first; but what you have on the page is a full shooting script acting. Camera, sound, ascontinous prose, and it captured me. The book has a hard core about race (ism) and gender. White Kevin and black Melissa are drummers with rivalbands... There's oodles of oompah. pace and punch in plot and style. Set in Birmingham, it ends as a riot starts and (serious voice) its vivacious contemporaneity will engage less experienced readers with linguistic and conceptual challenges. Should down a bomb.