Book review – Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride This is a slim novel. But the slender prose is delectable. The …
To Have and Have Not
Book review – To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway As a thirsty and aspiring fiction writer, you’ve got …
Main Street to Nowhere
Book review – Main Street by Sinclair Lewis I was attracted to reading Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street when I discovered …
Pedestrian Brooklyn
Book review – Brooklyn by Colm Toibin I was excited to get a free copy of Colm Toibin’s acclaimed 2009 …
Build The Wall!
John Lanchester’s Booker Prize longlisted novel drags us around a dismal post-apocalyptic future through the eyes of Kavanagh. As a …
The apocalypse is coming!
I finished reading On the Beach, just as Britain went into Covid-19 lockdown. Nevil Shute’s 1950s tale of Australians waiting …
None so blind
Review of Blindness by Jose Saramago This story starts out really well, with the basic premise of the whole population …
Ringworld
Proper, old school sci-fi. Encased in a second-hand bookstore pulp fiction paperback from 1970, ooh, tingles. After a few chapters, …
Shouting at my kindle
I bought The Taken by Alice Clark-Platts because it’s a murder mystery set in Durham, where I’ve lived for 30 …
Standard Irving
Book review – Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving I have a mixed relationship with the works of John Irving. …