Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsSurface 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 -
Book ReviewsNemesis 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 -
Book ReviewsElliot 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 -
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Blighty: 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 -
Book ReviewsThe 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 -
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I Love You, Goodbye by Cynthia Rogerson
Cynthia Rogerson examines the complexities of love in her third novel. In the village of Evanton in the Scottish Highlands, Rose and Harry are having... Read more »| 21 Sep 2010 -
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A Life in Pictures by Alasdair Gray
A Life in Pictures is just that, and a treat it is too. The book is a beautifully produced selection of Gray’s art over 300 pages, with extensi... Read more »| 21 Sep 2010 -
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The Hockey Stick Illusion by A.W Montford
The Hockey Stick Illusion is a term used by climate change sceptics to describe the graph that shows global temperatures have risen higher in recent ... Read more »| 15 Sep 2010 -
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Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Heaven and Hell is set in Iceland around the start of the 20th Century, and it concerns a boy named Bardur, and a boy who goes unnamed. Both are taken as pas... Read more »| 06 Sep 2010 -
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What the Hell Are You Doing? by David Shrigley
The artist David Shrigley is from Macclesfield originally, but is now a Glasgow resident, and if you’re struggling to place the name, you’ll prob... Read more »| 02 Sep 2010 -
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Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
Life of Pi deserved all the praise it got, but Yann Martel’s highly awaited follow-up Beatrice and Virgil isn’t as impressive. The ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Book ReviewsGenesis by Bernard Beckett
Genesis by Bernard Beckett manages to express an idea of what the future could be like. Set in the late 21st century, protagonist Anaximander is bein... Read more »| 22 Aug 2010