TL HUCHU
THE WORLD IS SURPRISINGLY FULL OF novels where you find yourself quietly admiring the writer’s mastery of craft. Rarer are those novels that pull you along with a sense that the book’s creator is having huge fun and, moreover, has the technical chops to match the sheer energy of the storytelling. Despite its ominous title, The Library Of The Dead by Tendai Huchu (TL for short) is one such novel.
“As a writer, you want to sound a little bit tortured and all, “but I had a great time writing it, it was a .” So how did Huchu come to write such a fantastic urban fantasy? As the man himself tells it, he “pretty much ripped off my own work” by drawing on two of his short stories: a tale similarly called “The Library Of The Dead” (2017), set in his adopted home of Edinburgh, and “Ghostalker” (2015), set in his Zimbabwean hometown of Bindura.
