Archive for the ‘Genre’ Category
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Chill out with Chili – Review: Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
09 May 2018Get Shorty review for the Library Corner. We all love a good little-fish-in-a-big-pond story, when the little guy from out…
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The unlikely rise of Eleanor Oliphant
25 Apr 2018Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is on The Library Shelf today It’s an unlikely best-seller. A darkly humorous novel about…
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The murder to end all literary murders? Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz reviewed
13 Apr 2018Review: Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz The English love the countryside and never more than when there’s a corpse spreadeagled…
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Who’s afraid of the Maybot? John Crace’s I, Maybot, reviewed for the Library Corner
09 Mar 2018Who’s afraid of the Maybot? Most of us remember our first encounter with a mechanical life-form. Depending on when we…
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Darkness in the Pacific: Review – Black Water by Louise Doughty
02 Mar 2018Review: Black Water by Louise Doughty. Agents, publishers, books on writing tell you to write about nice characters who grow…
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Should we legalise drugs? The Library Corner review: High Society by Ben Elton
16 Feb 2018Should we legalise drugs? Peter Paget MP thinks so. But he’s only a lowly backbencher in a government whose ministers…
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Library corner: Futuristic mayhem – The Outer Spheres by Andrew Wallace
03 Jan 2018The Library Corner reviews The Outer Spheres. 24th century princess Charity Freestone is fighting for her life against the massed…
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Bookstore rage: How I came close to losing my temper with an indie bookshop manager
29 Nov 2017Yesterday I came close to inflicting serious verbal damage on an indie bookshop manager. I’d very much like to know…
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Review – Sex and law In The Matter of Isabel – Paul A Mendelson
10 Oct 2017What is it about sex and law that gets our pulses racing? A famously dry and dusty profession, somehow the…
