25 Apr 2018
THE PERFECT GIRLFRIEND: Up In The Air And Out Of Her Mind – Book Review
The Hampshire-residing Hamilton’s first novel is a study of obsession, only unlike a Fatal Attraction , for example, this is actually told from the perspective…
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15 Jan 2018
DON’T WAKE UP by Liz Lawler: Doctor, Doctor, Gimme The News… – Book Review
Lawler’s first novel is set in her home city of Bath and benefits considerably from her 20 years’ experience as a nurse, meaning that the medical talk sounds…
15 Jan 2018
THE ALARMING PALSY OF JAMES ORR by Tom Lee: Another About Face – Book Review
A short story writer and academic, Lee’s first (and rather slim) novel is a crisply-written study of the plight of a titular character whom it’s almost…
15 Jan 2018
WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE CASABLANCA: THE LIFE, LEGEND AND AFTERLIFE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST BELOVED MOVIE: Here’s Reading About You, Kid – Book Review
As the years roll by so many movies fade into obscurity, and yet somehow Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942) remains untouchably beloved, and Isenberg here…
20 Dec 2017
ASTERIX AND THE CHARIOT RACE: Our Gaul Turns 37… And A Bit – Book Review
Written by Jean-Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad (Orion Children’s Books), 46pp, RRP $24.99
20 Dec 2017
LIKE A BAT OUT OF HELL: THE LARGER THAN LIFE STORY OF MEAT LOAF: All In All It’s Yet Another Book From The Wall – Book Review
Rock author Wall is a goddamn writing machine, having turned out biographies on Prince, Lemmy and Guns N’ Roses in less than two years and then followed them up…
20 Dec 2017
STRANGE WEATHER: Atmospheric Pressure Rising – Book Review
On the heels of Hill’s epic apocalyptic novel The Fireman comes this collection of four chunky novellas united (sort of) by the idea of weather, or at least…
9 Nov 2017
LITTLE ME: MY LIFE FROM A – Z ~ The Big, Bad And Bald Facts From ‘Little Britain’s’ Matt Lucas – Book Review
Lucas (co-creator of TV’s Little Britain , Peter Capaldi’s co-star in Doctor Who and more) here frolics through an alphabetical, non-chronological series of…
9 Nov 2017
SLEEPING BEAUTIES: Running In The Family (And On And On And On) – Book Review
Stephen King and Owen King (Hodder & Stoughton) 2017, 713pp, $32.00 (paperback), RRP $45.00 (hardback), RRP $16.99 (e-Book)
9 Nov 2017
THE BOOK OF FORGOTTEN AUTHORS: Falling Off The Page – And Back On Again – Book Review
The prolific Fowler’s gorgeous latest is a wonderfully witty study of authors who, despite huge sales, trendsetting innovations and major celebrity even only a…
29 Sept 2017
I AM, I AM, I AM: SEVENTEEN BRUSHES WITH DEATH ~ Death Just Won’t Give Up! – Book Review
Edinburgh-based novelist O’Farrell’s memoir recounts her life as she keeps barely escaping death, and while having eluded the Reaper’s grasp seventeen times…
23 Aug 2017
AFTER I’VE GONE: Who’d Believe Facebook Could Be So Dangerous? – Book Review
Green’s follow-up to her While My Eyes Were Closed was partly inspired by true stories of domestic violence, and while this has a supernatural/fantastical edge…