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London Book Fair 2014 Books! Books! Books!
Having been to London Book Fair last year and thought about returning pretty much constantly since, my happiness at being back there was inevitable. In fact, I was happy just to be in Earl’s Court...
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Crap Looking Books #8: Nicci Gerrard’s Things We Knew Were True
This edition of Nicci Gerrard’s Things We Knew Were True has an abundance of pink on the cover. The ladies dresser is complete with pink flowers, pink lipstick, pink make-up dust and a pink-lined...
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Hype, Hysteria and Haters Does success affect enjoyment?
So earlier this week I posted a review of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars to GoodReads. I am a huge fan of the work of John and his brother Hank, but I wasn’t a fan of the book. So if you’re a fan...
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Crap Looking Books #9 Tom Fletcher – The Leaping
I’m not about to launch into a full review of this book, for the simple fact that I loved it far too much . Rather than that, I’m going to use Tom Fletcher’s 2010 novel The Leaping to explain one of...
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Crap Looking Books #10 Curt Siodmak – Donovan’s Brain
If the somewhat ridiculous title and trippy cover art of Curt Siodmak’s 1942 novella Donovan’s Brain wasn’t enough to sell me on it being decent and exciting Crap Looking Books material, a glance at...
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The Fault In Our Arse Author Review
Somebody recently advised me that the “Author Review” space on GoodReads is a great place to share the experience of writing the book, and how you feel about the finished work. With that in mind,...
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Why I hated reading The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time (and...
While still nursing a substantial New Year hangover at the start of 2015, I was suitably impressed with Simon Stephens’s production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time. It’s an...
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Crap Looking Books #11 Gordon R. Dickson – Spacepaw
Face it. The instant I saw Gordon R. Dickson’s 1976 novella Spacepaw, there was no way that I wasn’t going to pick it up for Crap Looking Books. First of all there’s that title. Spacepaw. SPACE. PAW....
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On female authors.. ..and how to deal with their apparent invisibility
Updated in 2015 to include 50% less ignorance! When I browsed the fantastic events calendar for 2012’s Manchester Literature Festival, I found myself noting just how many of the female authors (but the...
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Book #12: Robert Asprin – The Bug Wars
I love the title of Robert Asprin’s 1979 novella. The Bug Wars. It tells you everything you need to know. There are bugs, and they go to war. There’s also the unattributed praise of “a brilliant and...
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