Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsSum 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 -
Book ReviewsThe Fire Gospel by Michael Faber
Remember The Da Vinci Code? Consider this the antidote. In The Fire Gospel Michael Faber has fun satirizing that book and its horrible ilk. His plot involves... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
Book ReviewsBad Boy Drive by Robert Sellers
David Lynch’s 2001 film added much to the surreal and schizophrenic nature of Mulholland Drive, a long and winding beauty spot outside Hollywood, and h... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
Book ReviewsLennox by Craig Russell
Lennox is, we are promised, the first book in a series about a ‘fixer’ in 1950s Glasgow, by author Craig Russell who once served as a police offi... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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The Pocket Essential Bruce Lee by Simon B. Kenny
Bruce Lee is a deserving subject of an essential guide but this just isn’t essential enough. Lee brought a dancer’s grace to martial arts and the... Read more »| 24 Jun 2009 -
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Daisychain by GJ Moffat
This is Moffat's first novel, and it shows. Daisychain focuses on the trials of Logan Finch, and the death of his former lover and long lost daughter, set ag... Read more »| 24 Jun 2009
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Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks by Alan Coren
Alan Coren was familiar to many from TV and radio panel shows up until his death in 2007. He was a very funny man in those, and he is a very funny man in thi... Read more »| 24 Jun 2009 -
Book ReviewsDreams From The Endz by Faiza Guene
This is a book about a 24 year old girl in the big city. However, the girl, Ahleme, is an Algerian immigrant living in Paris, and this makes a big difference... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
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The Pocket Essential Alan Moore by Lance Parkin
This is an update of a 2001 printing of this book, a comprehensive guide to master graphic novelist Alan Moore. The book’s approach is, roughly, to tel... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
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The Merry Muses of Caledonia by Robert Burns
The Merry Muses of Caledonia is Robert Burns’ collected ‘racy’ poems. But not exactly, because some of them are simply poems or songs Burns... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
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Don't Rhyme for the Sake of Riddlin': The Authorised Story Of Public Enemy by Russell Myrie
This is a fairly standard biography that’s lifted above the norm by having a fascinating subject. Public Enemy are one of the greatest hip hop acts ever, and... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
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The Unknown Knowns by Jeffrey Rotter
Everybody says they know an eccentric, but most of these supposed oddballs don’t really rate. The lead character of this book, Jim Rath, is the kind of... Read more »| 01 May 2009 -
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The Corner by David Simon and Ed Burns
After his first book, Homicide, a Year on the Killing Streets looked at the lives of a squad of detectives in Baltimore, David Simon chose to take a differen... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
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The Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
Guy Delisle previously wrote and illustrated the non-fiction graphic novels Shenzhen and Pyongyang, which were about his time working as an animation supervi... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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An Anarchist's Story: The Life of Ethel MacDonald by Chris Dolan
Ethel MacDonald (1909-1960) was a girl from Motherwell who became an anarchist, went to Spain to witness the anarchist movement’s extraordinary influen... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009