Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsA Game of Sorrows by Shona MacLean
The year is 1628 and Alexander Seaton of Aberdeen finds himself called to Ireland to break a curse that has been placed upon his estranged family. Th... Read more »| 23 Jul 2010 -
Book ReviewsFrom Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor by Jerry Della Femina
Jerry Della Femina’s memoirs centre on his rise to fame in the lucrative advertising business in the 60s. It became an instant cult classic in ... Read more »| 22 Jul 2010 -
Book ReviewsYippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer! by Vern
There are plenty of film reviewers on the internet, but not many of them get their own book. Why is Vern special? At first glance, he isn’t rea... Read more »| 29 May 2010 -
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A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
There have been several posthumous books by Ernest Hemingway released, such as Islands in The Stream, or True At First Light, edited down from abando... Read more »| 29 May 2010 -
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The Stately Pantheon by Kirsty Neary
This is Kirsty Neary’s first novel, and it’s an odd one. The plot of The Stately Pantheon is focused around an old Glasgow theatre (simil... Read more »| 29 May 2010 -
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Filmish #2 by Edward Ross
Issue 2 of the occasional comics-as-film-criticism series Filmish is not only a great, entertaining read like the first one, but also a more refined product ... Read more »| 25 May 2010
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Book ReviewsFilmish #1 by Edward Ross
This nifty little comic is something of a labour of love by writer/artist Edward Ross. It presents 3 lectures by him on film theory in graphic form, and in t... Read more »| 24 May 2010 -
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The Rough Guide to Sex
Don't be fooled by the title: The Rough Guide to Sex is not a guide to rough sex, nor is it a primer on how to sort of vaguely do it. This book tells you eve... Read more »| 11 May 2010 -
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The Valkyrie Song
Thanks to the continuing popularity of crime/detective fiction, these days it must be difficult for up-and-coming authors to find some new twist that... Read more »| 07 May 2010 -
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Voluntary Madness by Norah Vincent
Norah Vincent's account of her year admitted by choice to mental institutions in America is carefully articulated, yet personal. She talks realistica... Read more »| 07 May 2010 -
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The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior by Paul Strathern
This is a story to rival most works of fiction. Cesare Borgia, with the backing of his father (the Pope!), is trying to dominate Italy and create a f... Read more »| 06 May 2010 -
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Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter by Russell T.Davies and Benjamin Cook.
Comprising two and a half years' worth of emails between Doctor Who’s outgoing head writer Russell T Davies and fan journalist Ben Cook, readers are gi... Read more »| 05 May 2010 -
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The Housekeeper + The Professor
If you can imagine Kazuo Ishiguro writing 50 First Dates, then you basically have The Housekeeper and The Professor by Yoko Ogawa. A single mother is... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
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Down the Figure 7
It may be an increasingly overused cliché, but the past – even our own – can genuinely seem like a foreign country where people did things... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
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Orphans of Eldorado by Milton Hatoum
Something about Miltoun Hatoum’s tale, set in the Amazon Basin, is unnerving and otherworldly. Somewhere in the vivid descriptions of the rich Amazonia... Read more »| 30 Apr 2010