Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsDrive! by Andrew McCallum Crawford
A debut novel with a lot of good things in it, Drive! is not only the name of the book, but the name of a band that main character, Terry, joins. Well, joins... Read more »| 13 Dec 2010 -
Book Reviews101 Whiskies To Try Before You Die by Ian Buxton
Rather like a drop or two of water in a dram of single malt, Ian Buxton’s lively guide opens the subject of whisky up and lets it breath. Designed to a... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
Book ReviewsThe Complete Peanuts
It’s 60 years since the first publication of the Peanuts cartoons by Charles M Schulz, and the adventures of lonesome Charlie Brown, his peers ... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
Book ReviewsSunset Park by Paul Auster
Miles Heller is a one-man gloomfest. He’s haunted by the death of his stepbrother, estranged from his family and facing blackmail for conductin... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
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Delete This At Your Peril by Neil Forsyth
Delete This At Your Peril is a compilation of emails exchanged between fraudsters and a character Forsyth has created (or could he be real?) called B... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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Teenage Revolution by Alan Davies
This cheekily charming sweep through a decade does not say anything new yet makes for compelling reading. Davies uses portraits of wide-ranging heroe... Read more »| 18 Nov 2010
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X'ed Out by Charles Burns
The first thing you notice about Charles Burns’ latest comic, X’ed Out, is that the art is clearly influenced by Herge. It’s right ... Read more »| 04 Nov 2010 -
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Surface Detail by Iain M Banks
This is Iain M Banks’ 11th sci-fi novel, and 8th featuring the utopian socialist space society The Culture. The plot revolves around events in ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
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Nemesis by Philip Roth
Philip Roth’s last book, The Humbling, was rather poor, and his previous two, Indignation and Exit Ghost, were okay but not up to his high standards. I... Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
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Elliot Allagash by Simon Rich
Elliot Allagash, the book’s namesake and driving character is a blatant mash up of John Irvine’s Owen Meany, and the rich brat from Kick-Ass: a 1... Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
Book ReviewsBlighty: a Cynic's Guide to Britain
Britain: you thought it was all about Cameron, Clegg, Simon, Cheryl and Churchill (the talking dog, not the wartime leader). Turns out there’s ... Read more »| 28 Oct 2010 -
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Phantoms of Breslau by Marek Krajewski
Phantoms of Breslau is the third in a series of books following the investigations of Eberhard Mock, the delightfully unorthodox Criminal Assistant w... Read more »| 27 Oct 2010 -
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The Long Glasgow Kiss
“If there’s one thing I can say about your veiled threats, Superintendent, it’s that they’re all threat and no veil.” T... Read more »| 23 Sep 2010 -
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Puffin by Design by Phil Baines
Penguin and Puffin books have been celebrating their 80th anniversary this year, and this lovely little book is a tribute to the design of the Puffin... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
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Novgorod the Great by Andrew Drummond
Andrew Drummond’s Novgorod the Great is an intriguing historical novel set primarily in Russia, but ambitiously broad in scope. In 1833, two tr... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010