This is a good book, but I struggled to comprehend why it has been lavished with such immense praise – …
Cockerings – a book review
Stevyn Colgan’s Cockerings is the next (?last) instalment of his South Herewardshire series of comic novels. When the circus comes …
Death in the Levant
A book review of The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf, translated by Frank Wynne. In short, I loved this book. 5 …
Strange Hotel
Book review – Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride This is a slim novel. But the slender prose is delectable. The …
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Competitions
Beat back 2021 – Win a paperback! To bring some cheer to the struggle that is 2020, I’m offering a …
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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 …
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Main Street to Nowhere
Book review – Main Street by Sinclair Lewis I was attracted to reading Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street when I discovered …
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What should the new social order be?
In the first few editions of this blog, I’ve painted a pretty bleak picture of the difficulties facing people in …
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Science fiction
I’ve written a series of novels exploring the idea of technology that could bug a person’s brain. Whilst watching …