Book Reviews
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Book Reviews
Young Soul Rebels by Stuart Cosgrove
A familiar voice for many, Stuart Cosgrove looks into the enigmatic Northern Soul music scene in his latest book. From the musicians who echoed over the spea... Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
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#UntitledTwo by Neu! Reekie!
Neu! Reekie! – well, they’ve done it again. The sumptuous gold cover of #UntitledTwo is a gorgeous, shimmering temptation. Pause to admire the co... Read more »| 30 May 2016 -
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
It’s a skilful, masterful memoir: tracing one man’s obsession with surfing that takes him from teenage years in Hawaii to adulthood spent on far-... Read more »| 27 May 2016 -
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Noon In Paris, Eight In Chicago by Douglas Cowie
Love: the greatest adventure; a high-stakes, perilous undertaking; a long-odds gamble, for the greatest reward. Its possibilities so often flail un... Read more »| 13 May 2016 -
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Lunatics, Lovers and Poets ed. by Hahn & Valencia
This collection gracefully exhibits 12 previously unpublished pieces inspired by two literary giants: Cervantes and Shakespeare. With six English language au... Read more »| 10 May 2016 -
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The Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam
Tahmima Anam first declared herself with the award-winning 2007 novel A Golden Age, soon followed by its equally acclaimed sequel The Good Muslim. These... Read more »| 10 May 2016
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Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
You can forget about the empty savannah, the deep jungle and the native peoples mystically in touch with nature and a purer, simpler past. This is a book abo... Read more »| 09 May 2016 -
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Zero K by Don DeLillo
“What’s the point of living if we don’t die at the end if it?” observes a nameless monk in Don DeLillo’s seventeenth novel. It&... Read more »| 09 May 2016 -
Tech
Indie Games: The Complete Introduction to Indie Gaming
Given the fledgling status of what’s considered the modern ‘indie game’, it’s perhaps little surprise that there’s hardly been ... Read more »| 12 Apr 2016 -
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All That Man Is by David Szalay
Or: all that man isn't. Male readers beware – Szalay is in no mood to gloss over the shortcomings of his gender as he exposes with clear-sighted precis... Read more »| 05 Apr 2016 -
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George Monbiot at Aye Write!
"It’s as if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism," says George Monbiot in his Aye Write! event How Did We Get Into This Mes... Read more »| 05 Apr 2016 -
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The Bricks that Built the Houses by Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest’s debut novel The Bricks that Built the Houses begins with a quote from William Blake, and the shadow of this great London poet lingers ov... Read more »| 05 Apr 2016 -
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The Cauliflower® by Nicola Barker
Who is Sri Ramakrishna? 'Is he man or child? Leader or follower? Idiot or genius? A god, a god-man, or just too, too human?' In a world where spirituality se... Read more »| 04 Apr 2016 -
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The Wolf Trial by Neil Mackay
The premise is intriguing: in a small town in 16th century Germany, a serial killer is captured and tried as a werewolf. There are moments of gory, shocking ... Read more »| 31 Mar 2016 -
Book Reviews
What I Learned from Johnny Bevan by Luke Wright
With its cute couplets and wry nods to Twitter and twerking, What I Learned from Johnny Bevan reads at first like a piece from a poetry night at a good ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016