Book Reviews
-
Book Reviews
A Rose Loupt Oot, edited by David Betteridge
A Rose Loupt Oot is a collection of songs and poems associated with the work-in at the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, now nearly 40 years ago. The bulk of the wor... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
Book Reviews
On the State of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany
Even as the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak reached its climax, there were those who doubted the possibility of regime change in Egypt. One man... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
Book Reviews
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
Alternate history novels can often be clichéd works, where the alteration is that either the Nazis won World War 2, or the South won the American Civi... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
Book Reviews
Everybody Loves You When You're Dead by Neil Strauss
Whilst not being the world’s number one pick-up artist, as detailed in his book The Game, Neil Strauss works at his day job, interviewing celeb... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Book Reviews
To The River by Olivia Laing
To The River charts its narrative along the banks of Sussex’s Ouse, as Laing documents her journey from the river’s confluence to its exi... Read more »| 27 Apr 2011 -
Book Reviews
Monsieur Linh and His Child by Philippe Claudel
Monsieur Linh, traumatised by memories of his war-ravaged homeland, arrives as a stranger in a country whose language he can neither understand nor speak. Wi... Read more »| 26 Apr 2011
-
Book Reviews
The Book of Lies by Mary Horlock
“There’s something about this island makes you go a bit mental…” As ringing endorsements go, it’s not the kind of rema... Read more »| 26 Apr 2011 -
Book Reviews
Black Watch by Tom Renouf
Tom Renouf well remembers his first taste of alcohol; it was home-brewed cider provided by French farmers as he and his fellow Black Watch soldiers c... Read more »| 25 Apr 2011 -
Book Reviews
Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg
Karin Altenberg's story of a newly-wed minister and his pregnant wife is a leap of faith. For the couple it's a chance to set up stall on a remote island. Fo... Read more »| 25 Apr 2011 -
Book Reviews
Paradoxical Undressing by Kristin Hersh
Based on the diaries she kept at the time, this absorbing and idiosyncratic memoir chronicles the early years of Kristin Hersh's band Throwing Muses, one of ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
Book Reviews
Filmish #3 by Edward Ross
Filmish Number 3 is here, and it is as enjoyable as the first two. If you haven’t seen it before, Filmish is a comic where author Edward Ross appears h... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
Book Reviews
Killed At The Whim Of A Hat
Looking for a mystery featuring a murdered monk, a camp-as-Christmas cop and a canine kleptomaniac? You may be in luck. Killed at the Whim of a Hat brings to... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011 -
Book Reviews
Convictions: My Life With A Good Communist
A re-release of a book first published in 1979, Convictions details Jo Langer’s incredible story of survival in 1950s Communist Czechoslovakia.... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011 -
Book Reviews
Glasgow Fairytale
See, it aw started when this guy wrote a book aboot Glesga. Except it wisnae aw aboot the Armadillo and Lulu, and that. Naw, whit it wis, he put aw t... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
Book Reviews
The Blackhouse
Detective Fin McLeod returns to his childhood home, the Isle of Lewis, for the first time in 17 years to investigate a brutal murder. Rediscovering the islan... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011