Book Reviews
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Book Reviews
Hunting Grounds: A Scottish Football Safari by Gary Sutherland
In this amusing tale, author Gary Sutherland chronicles his visits to all 42 home grounds of all of the teams in the Scottish Football League. The b... Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
Book Reviews
Invisible by Paul Auster
University is meant to be one of the best and most carefree times of your life. However Adam Walker, the protagonist of Paul Auster's fifteenth novel, is not... Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
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Warrior Daughter by Janet Paisley
If you had to categorise Warrior Daughter, it would definitely fall into the historical/fantasy/porno genre. Paisley’s latest novel is set in a... Read more »| 26 Oct 2009 -
Book Reviews
The Paris Review Interviews Vol 4
Literary journal The Paris Review interviews as many of the famous writers in the world as it can find, always about their creative processes as much as thei... Read more »| 23 Oct 2009 -
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Magazine: The Biography by Helen Chase
“Magazine were always a connoisseur's choice”, claims guitarist John McGeoch in this vigorous account of their short bittersweet career. As the l... Read more »| 20 Oct 2009 -
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A History of British Serial Killing by David Wilson
Anyone who expects the gruesome account of murders that this book’s title and blood-splattered cover jacket suggest is bound to be disappointed. David ... Read more »| 19 Oct 2009
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Book Reviews
Grandville by Bryan Talbot
Bryan Talbot’s last graphic novel (if it should be called that) was the phenomenal Alice in Sunderland, a multi-layered exploration of the history of S... Read more »| 12 Oct 2009 -
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Simon's Cat by Simon Tofield
Simon’s Cat started off life as an internet animation that developed a cult following. The short films featuring a hungry cat on Youtube gained enough ... Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
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Transition By Iain Banks
Iain Banks’ new book is of a sort that Iain M Banks could have put his name to – because this book, though it has a (sort of) contemporary settin... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
Book Reviews
Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography by Rodge Glass
Reviews written for the paperback edition of this entertaining biography are pre-empted by the fact that Gray himself has written his own review of the book ... Read more »| 24 Sep 2009 -
Book Reviews
Agnes Owens: The Complete Novellas
Agnes Owens’ novellas are finally collected in the one place – and a good thing too, because they’re brilliant. The novella is an odd form:... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
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The Death of Bunny Munro, by Nick Cave
Yes, that Nick Cave, musician extraordinaire. This isn’t his first foray into fiction – he scripted a well-received film, the Australian Western ... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
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When The Sun Turns Green by Jane McKie
Jane McKie’s collection is largely about nature, and the poems here certainly seem charged with meaning. But in many of these poems McKie seems to be m... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Festivals
For Richer For Poorer, by Victoria Coren
This is a poker memoir, a genre that has grown unexpectedly in recent years with the general boom in gambling. The classics of this genre are Al Alvarez&rsqu... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Book Reviews
Sum by David Eagleman
This slim volume is a cult book waiting to happen. For starters, David Eagleman is described on the jacket as a ‘neuroscientist and writer’, a cu... Read more »| 02 Jul 2009