About Ben Aaronovitch: Ben Denis Aaronovitch is the London-born British author of the best selling Rivers of London series of novels.
This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.
I didn't think that Herefordshire Social Services would be best pleased about me dumping a poorly socialised pre-teen with mind control powers on them.
He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.
The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.
He was a Parisian,’ he said. ‘You can never be sure what Parisians believe in – beyond Paris of course.
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howl...
Most people don't see half of what's in front of them. Your visual cortex does a shit load of imaging processing before the signal even gets to your brain, whose priorities are still checking the ancestral Savannah for dangerous predators, edible ber...
The problem with the so-called bloody surveillance state is that it’s hard work trying to track someone’s movements using CCTV – especially if they’re on foot. Part of the problem is that the cameras all belong to different people for differe...
It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.
Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard.
In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
...don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.
Despite what you think you know, most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. … That's why you see those young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.
It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get the irony in Eminem.
I looked into the literature on this," said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful." "There's a literature about this?" "You'd be amazed, Constable, about what there's a literature on.
Can you sacrifice people?' I asked. 'Take their magic that way?' 'Yes,' he said. 'But there's a catch.' 'What's the catch?' 'You get hunted down even unto the ends of the Earth and summarily executed.
I did feel a 'something', like a catch in the silence at the moment of creation.
Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.
This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.
On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
