Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsHot Off The Comics Press: Picks of the Week 20 July
So what do we have in the world of comic books this week? It seems that DC is having bouts of nostalgia with some tales of yesteryear. Focusing on unpublishe... Read more »| 20 Jul 2011 -
Book ReviewsHot Off the Comics Press: Picks of the Week 13 July
Summer events haven't always been the staple of a comic book calendar, but Marvel's critically (and commercially) excelling Civil War, which ran in 2006, set... Read more »| 13 Jul 2011 -
Book ReviewsAaron and Ahmed by Jay Cantor (writer) and James Romberger (artist)
Aaron and Ahmed is subtitled ‘A Love Story’, but it’s not that simple. It’s the story of Aaron, who becomes a soldier in Guantanamo B... Read more »| 07 Jul 2011 -
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Hot Off The Comics Press: Picks of The Week 6 July
Here we are in the height of summer, the sun is shining (sometimes) and the big comic book events are in full flow. Whether you love them or loath them, the ... Read more »| 06 Jul 2011 -
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Hot Off the Comics Press: Picks of the week 29 June
With Spider-Man hogging the headlines at the moment, it is perhaps fitting that he should be included in this week's pull list. And although The Amazing Spid... Read more »| 29 Jun 2011 -
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Top Gear Drivers' Handbook by Richard Porter
Following on from Haynes, the Car Manual publisher who branched out into novelty books – The Star Trek based U.S.S Enterprise Manual, Dad Manua... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011
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This is Not the End of the Book, by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere
There have been too many hand-wringing discussions on the future of the book. This is not one of them. Author and academic Umberto Eco and his friend... Read more »| 27 Jun 2011 -
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Beauty and The Inferno by Roberto Saviano
Gomorrah, journalist Roberto Saviano’s exposé of the Neapolitan Camorra crime organisation, quickly became an international bestsel... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Book ReviewsWhere The Bodies Are Buried by Chris Brookmyre
Christopher Brookmyre’s latest novel is something of a departure from his previous work – the ‘satirical crime’ genre –... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
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The Great Night by Chris Adrian
Chris Adrian has reworked A Midsummer Night's Dream into a novel that is beautifully written and acutely observed. He says this story, only his third... Read more »| 30 May 2011 -
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The Boys: Highland Laddie by Garth Ennis, John McCrea and Derrick Robertson
After the events in the last collected edition of The Boys comic, our sort-of hero, Simon Pegg lookalike Hughie, retreats to his home town for a bre... Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
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Coconut Badger
There’s a long tradition of put-upon underdogs being guided towards success and self-enlightenment by an older, more experienced mentor, but Mark MacNi... Read more »| 25 May 2011 -
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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 ReviewsOn 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 -
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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