As a long time lover of Private Eye and QI, it came a bit out of left field to hear …
Sunshine Superhighway
I’m not normally a big fan of short stories, so I wasn’t sure about how I was going to like …
An interminable history of 7 killings
As the title of this book review will suggest, I didn’t really get on well with this book. The story …
Strange Hotel
Book review – Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride This is a slim novel. But the slender prose is delectable. The …
Competitions
Beat back 2021 – Win a paperback! To bring some cheer to the struggle that is 2020, I’m offering a …
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 …
None so blind
Review of Blindness by Jose Saramago This story starts out really well, with the basic premise of the whole population …