Book Reviews
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Book Reviews100 Favorite Scottish Football Poems, edited by Alistair Findlay.
You'll find Bill Shankly here, 'Football boots in one hand / Football's soul in the other' Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Book ReviewsAlias the Cat by Kim Deitch
Deitch's art swirls and enchants, creating a fairy universe bedevilled by sordid behaviour and uncomfortable eroticism Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Edinburgh: 40 Town and Country Walks by Kerry Nelson.
Celebrates the continual contrasts that Edinburgh can offer Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Book ReviewsTamara Drewe, by Posy Simmonds
A friendly, almost Archers-feeling story with - gasp! - literary origins Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Undead on Arrival by Nick Smith
Tells an altogether more 'ordinary' zombie story Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Book ReviewsBernard Sumner: Confusion by David Nolan
Sumner occasionally interjects to clarify or correct what former acquaintances have to say about him - ""Sumner: That's just not true. Never happened"". Read more »| 07 Nov 2007
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Bonfire of the Brands by Neil Boorman.
An odd hybrid of addiction memoir, pop-sociology soapbox and incendiary blog Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Peter Doggett- There's A Riot Going On
Doggett details the drama of the aborted American revolution Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace
Peace's writing is more like poetry than the standard lingo of crime thrillers Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Isms and Ologies by Arthur Goldwag
One of the seven sections here is solely about Sexual Perversions. Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Book ReviewsAn Iliad by Alessandro Baricco
It looses both the clinical realism and discursive fantasy that has made Homer popular Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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History Without the Boring Bits by Ian Crofton
Will give the scholarly historian something to read in the toilet. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Light by Margaret Elphinstone
The sort of fast-paced narrative which builds to a tantalizing denouement that most authors would envy Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Poor Bastard by Joe Matt
A relatively unfunny story being told and re-told Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Thursday Night Letters by PK Munroe
Munroe's letters are the best part of the book Read more »| 08 Oct 2007