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Book Reviews
The Uninvited by Geiling Yan
A wonderfully complex analysis of society made clear through the eyes of the naive peasant. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Features
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
This is all central to one of Alan Moore's core beliefs, the role of storytelling as magic. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Book Reviews
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
Since there is no focal conflict or struggle the story lacks intensity. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Features
The Black Dossier.
Back in 1984, the cartoonist, writer and satirist Willie Rushton wrote an illustrated novel, W.G. Grace's Last Case. In it the renowned Victorian cricketer j... Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Features
Sex, Drugs and Rocket Science
While Pynchon possesses a singular prose style and an enormous talent, he also publishes far too rarely. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Book Reviews
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
the cumulative impact is moving and profound - mature and graceful Read more »| 12 Dec 2006
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Book Reviews
Wimbledon Green by Seth
This book retains the zany sort of fun Seth must have had in writing it Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Features
Creative Writing: Five Glasgow Tanka
How wonderful – snowbright and short-lived descendingwith equal magicon the couple from Iranand our wide-eyed one year old. * The ice cube explodesin my... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Book Reviews
Shenzhen by Guy Deslisle
Everyday life in the city that serves as a communist country's main trading post with the capitalist West Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Pyongyang by Guy Delisle
Kim Il-Sung is the Eternal Leader of North Korea, whose death ten years ago still can't stop him from holding the presidency Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Book Reviews
Nobody Likes You by Marc Spitz.
A kind of 'My First Rock Biography' for the youthful audience it is obviously aimed at Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Book Reviews
Fun Home by Alison Bechdale
the cumulative impact is moving and profound - mature and graceful Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Book Reviews
The No.2 Global Detective by Toby Clements
the story nicely parodies the work of four contemporary greats of crime writing Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Book Reviews
A Winter Book by Tove Jansson
Works like 'The Iceberg', are as eerie and magical as the Northern Lights. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Book Reviews
The Very Best of Monty Python, by 'Monty Python'
The famous cheese shop skit, with John Cleese removed, becomes just a list of types of cheese. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006