Coincidence and Corruption in London’s Portobello Market

Off the Shelf By Joanna Cannon    |   Monday, July 18, 2016 Stories of the ordinary, and of lives thrown together by chance and coincidence, have always fascinated me, and in Ruth Rendell’s wonderful PORTOBELLO, you will find both. Her characters are linked only by a postcode, living their small, unpeopled lives in the area of London’s Portobello market, until a simple twist of fate brings them together. Then their days become as complex, and as colorful, as the market itself. READ MORE