Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
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Top 10 comedy novels to give your friends (or yourself) this Christmas
16 Dec 2025TOP 10 COMEDY NOVELS Merriest season’s greetings. Are you only now getting round to buying presents? Or is it just…
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Review: The Bonfire of the Vanities
01 Aug 2025I asked in a blog some years ago if satire worked. If it does, why is the world in such…
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Can you help me deal with Amazon’s high-handedness?
05 Jul 2025AMAZON’S HIGH-HANDEDNESS I’d appreciate your help dealing with Amazon’s high-handedness. Some time ago on Amazon I had well over 100…
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35 Years of Devil in a Blue Dress
04 Jun 2025DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS Devil in a Blue Dress is celebrating its 35th anniversary. Walter Mosley’s bestseller broke new…
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Three books for humans
03 Apr 2025THREE BOOKS FOR HUMANS It’s not easy to find an entertaining book about the way we live now, climate change…
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Orbital and other books and TV
28 Nov 2024ORBITAL AND OTHER BOOKS AND TV Fall in love with the earth In my continuing search for books to recommend…
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Books & TV for the long nights
02 Oct 2024BOOKS & TV FOR THE LONG NIGHTS It’s scary how many books there are out there. So many good books…
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The Boys from Biloxi. Has Grisham taken on too big a case?
18 Aug 2023THE BOYS FROM BILOXI Not many writers can claim to have made a genre their own, but John Grisham and…
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Act of Oblivion – Robert Harris
25 May 2023ACT OF OBLIVION Why should we care? It’s probably the most important question a storyteller needs to answer. It’s particularly…
