Archive for the ‘Satire’ 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 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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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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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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The Breaking of Liam Glass – tabloid truth in fiction
28 Jun 2017I’ve just added a special new gift to go with the launch of my new novel The Breaking of Liam…
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Secret Library – Lee, Vonnegut, Niven
15 Jun 2017I’m delighted and honoured to be invited to make my contribution to Richard Fernandez’ remarkable Secret Library on his blog…
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Review: Dead Writers in Rehab
08 Jun 2017Dead Writers in Rehab by Paul Bassett Davies My rating: 5 of 5 stars At the start of Paul Bassett…
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The Genre That Dare Not Speak Its Name – Review: Capital
18 Mar 2017Capital by John Lanchester My rating: 5 of 5 stars Satire is the genre that dare not speak its name…
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Review: Rivers of London
18 Oct 2015Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch My rating: 5 of 5 stars Just came across this lovely off-beat fantasy crime…
