29 Aug 2014
Kylie Ladd’s fourth novel, Mothers And Daughters, holds a lot of promise. The set-up is immediately alluring: four mothers and their teenage daughters go away…
29 Aug 2014
Take Care, Son – The Story of My Dad and His Dementia is a touching, relevant and easily accessible account of one family’s experience as their loved one slowly…
29 Aug 2014
MacLean was an Ohio-born writing student on a scholarship in India when he came to in a crowded train station not knowing who he was or how he got there, and…
29 Aug 2014
Milo is a 9-year old boy with Retinitis Pigmentosa. His vision is gradually failing; he can only see through a diminishing pinhole and one day he will be blind.…
18 Aug 2014
Do you know what a gerund is? Did you know that there are many different forms of pronouns: personal, demonstrative, possessive, reflexive, intensive…
31 July 2014
Ingle’s contribution to the ‘Fan Phenomena’ series (which also includes titles covering Twin Peaks , Doctor Who , Audrey Hepburn and more) is a collection of…
31 July 2014
The amusingly-named Hughes’ latest contribution to the ‘Filmgoers’ Guide’ series treads familiar, even fanboy-ish ground, and yet there’s much here that’s…
30 July 2014
Eleven year old Cara is living in the shadow of a wall that keeps her ‘safe’ in her country, and free from the dangers of the mysterious country on the other…
21 July 2014
Albertine, a former member of The Slits, an all-girl British punk group around during the peak late ‘70s/early ‘80s period and contemporaries of The Sex Pistols…
21 July 2014
You’d think that an autobiographical work from Front, best-known for her role in UK TV’s The Thick Of It , would be all about her considerable success, but this…
19 July 2014
‘Trash King’ Water’s latest tome is the result of his wild idea to hitchhike across America, from his home in his beloved Baltimore to his property in San…
1 July 2014
Mere months after his Doctor Sleep , the long-time-coming sequel to his original The Shining (the book, not the film), King’s latest is a return to scary…