Liverpool’s past and present weaves itself around Jack Byrne’s debut novel Under the Bridge. The first part of his Liverpool Mysteries series,…
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This The Undiscovered Country review feels long overdue, as I have been cheering the book on ever since reading the synopsis back…
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Book ReviewsFeaturedJapan
Convenience Store Woman review: Sayaka Murata takes us behind the konbini counter
I want to start this Convenience Store Woman review with some memories of Japan’s convenience stores. Like many new arrivals, I quickly…
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The 1956 Club inspired this The Lonely Londoners review, but although Sam Selvon vividly conveys ’50s London via a group of recently…
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Libraries gave us power – Manic Street Preachers So far in this occasional series I’ve talked about how George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four…
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If even the title of my last post – 10 long books to read on lockdown – was enough to make you…
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FeaturedInterviews
My Mummy is a Monster! An interview with author Natalie Reeves Billing
by John Maguireby John MaguireMy Mummy is a Monster, My Children are Monsters, perhaps two phrases that are being used increasingly as we enter the Xth…
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There comes a time in any young life where the senses are suddenly open and art of any genus strikes like a…
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Book ReviewsFeaturedLiverpool
Ten Years On The Parish: The Autobiography and Letters of George Garrett
by John Maguireby John MaguireI have often wished I could step back in time to see the Mersey in its golden years brimming with vessels setting…
