Non-fiction CINEMA SPECULATION

by Quentin Tarantino, W&N, £25, ebook £10.99 ★★★★✩ From Reservoir Dogs to Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino is responsible for directing some of the most wild and bloodthirsty movies of the last three decades.

In Cinema Speculation, he unveils his inspirations, and the heroes who helped shape him into a master of his craft. Over more than a dozen chapters, each of which revolves around a favourite film, Tarantino paints an engrossing and lurid picture of Hollywood in the Seventies.

The oblique nature of some of his subjects hardly matters, given Tarantino writes as he directs – in a fast-paced and florid style.