Book Reviews

From a writer’s point of view, reviews have one purpose. Make people read the damn book and now. But when approaching reviews…

I am writing about James Bond in Moonraker and I can almost hear your groans from here. What is there that can…

Alan Sillitoe died last week and when I heard the news, my first reaction was sorrow. Not for Mr Sillitoe himself, but for…

Reconstructing 3/11 is live. But what is Reconstructing 3/11 all about, you might ask? The team that brought you #quakebook has come…

Writing about doomed literary loves isn’t really in keeping with the spirit of the day, as everyone loves a happy ever after, but…

There are books that you long to read, waiting for the publishing date and shelling out for the hardback edition, putting them…

Every night at dusk the starlings flock around Brighton like a great black wave, swarming through the sky, swooping around, over and…

I can do tact and diplomacy when they are required, so a couple of months after arriving in Japan, when it dawned…

At this time of year the anniversaries come often for Liverpool fans, the games we love to remember and the ones we…

If any budding dramatists are reading this and would like to see in action an expert blending of political, social and personal…