Lennox by Craig Russell
By . Published 29 June 2009
Lennox is, we are promised, the first book in a series about a ‘fixer’ in 1950s Glasgow, by author Craig Russell who once served as a police officer in Scotland....
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The Pocket Essential Bruce Lee by Simon B. Kenny
By . Published 24 June 2009Bruce Lee is a deserving subject of an essential guide but this just isn’t essential enough. Lee brought a dancer’s grace to martial arts and the martial arts movie –...
Daisychain by GJ Moffat
By . Published 24 June 2009This is Moffat's first novel, and it shows. Daisychain focuses on the trials of Logan Finch, and the death of his former lover and long lost daughter, set against the...
Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks by Alan Coren
By . Published 24 June 2009Alan Coren was familiar to many from TV and radio panel shows up until his death in 2007. He was a very funny man in those, and he is a...
Dreams From The Endz by Faiza Guene
By . Published 29 May 2009This is a book about a 24 year old girl in the big city. However, the girl, Ahleme, is an Algerian immigrant living in Paris, and this makes a big...
The Pocket Essential Alan Moore by Lance Parkin
By . Published 26 May 2009This is an update of a 2001 printing of this book, a comprehensive guide to master graphic novelist Alan Moore. The book’s approach is, roughly, to tell Moore’s life story,...
The Merry Muses of Caledonia by Robert Burns
By . Published 26 May 2009The Merry Muses of Caledonia is Robert Burns’ collected ‘racy’ poems. But not exactly, because some of them are simply poems or songs Burns collected himself and some are only...
Don't Rhyme for the Sake of Riddlin': The Authorised Story Of Public Enemy by Russell Myrie
By . Published 25 May 2009This is a fairly standard biography that’s lifted above the norm by having a fascinating subject. Public Enemy are one of the greatest hip hop acts ever, and that’s because...
The Unknown Knowns by Jeffrey Rotter
By . Published 01 May 2009Everybody says they know an eccentric, but most of these supposed oddballs don’t really rate. The lead character of this book, Jim Rath, is the kind of eccentric that everyone...
The Corner by David Simon and Ed Burns
By . Published 24 April 2009After his first book, Homicide, a Year on the Killing Streets looked at the lives of a squad of detectives in Baltimore, David Simon chose to take a different perspective...
The Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
By . Published 23 April 2009Guy Delisle previously wrote and illustrated the non-fiction graphic novels Shenzhen and Pyongyang, which were about his time working as an animation supervisor in China and North Korea respectively. Delisle...
An Anarchist's Story: The Life of Ethel MacDonald by Chris Dolan
By . Published 22 April 2009Ethel MacDonald (1909-1960) was a girl from Motherwell who became an anarchist, went to Spain to witness the anarchist movement’s extraordinary influence in Barcelona in 1936, and then became a...
Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica
By . Published 04 February 2009Last year Polygon revived interest in the work of the Scottish poet and folklorist Hamish Henderson by publishing a fantastic biography by Timothy Neat. They’ve now followed that up by...
The Bird Room
By . Published 04 February 2009The Bird Room is a contemporary, fast-paced, blackly comic story focusing on the lives of and interactions between four characters (Will, William, Alice and Helen) living in Manchester. William and...
Pentti and Deathgirl
By . Published 03 February 2009Pentti and Deathgirl are two separate narratives, making this book less of a graphic novel than two graphic short stories. The first focuses on the titular Pentti, a Finn who...
Laid Bare
By . Published 26 January 2009After twenty years in the sex industry, New Zealander Rachel Francis has penned a detailed account of her experiences. What sets her apart from the ‘happy hooker’ memoirists, frequently derided...
The American Dream
By . Published 22 January 2009On his quest to experience the American dream from a variety of starting points, writer and comedian Harmon Leon goes undercover, and in doing so comes up against all manner...
One Moonlit Night
By . Published 22 January 2009The actual title is Un Nos Ola Leuad – this is a book that was originally written in Welsh. It’s a gem too – one of those stories that’s told...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
By . Published 11 December 2008This mammoth biography takes in 80 plus years of the life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as well as setting that life inside some extremely eventful Latin American history. It’s not...
Stolen Stories (by various writers)
By . Published 10 December 2008The best stories are the simplest
