novel's action takes place against a backdrop of post-Thatcher London, rendered by Weiner into a dark and phantasmagorical dreamscape. The cover illustration is also by the Brothers Quay, the London-based animated filmmakers Stephen and Timothy Quay. Weiner's writing is characterised by its exceptionally bold telegraphic style, one that has a truly cinematic feel in the sheer convulsive power of the images that are evoked and their deeply unsettling visionary tone. He would even seem to defy the cinema (unless one were to think of the more theatrical and stylized approach of certain animators and graphic artists). He is, however, also able to achieve in his phantasmagorical and often violent universe an exceedingly delicate and fragile realm of characters despite their being inhabited by a world all too overwhelmingly hostile and mad. Bibliography The Museum of Love, London: Bloomsbury, 1993 The Yellow Sailor, New York: Overlook Press, 2001 Sweet England, Vancouver: New Star Books, 2010 References 1947 births Canadian male novelists 20th-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian novelists Living people 20th-century Canadian male writers 21st-century Canadian male writers