Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
Peak experience? The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
30 May 2018Library Corner review: The Sound of the Mountain – Yasunari Kawabata Let me declare an interest, well at least two.…
How seductive is the call of Sirens – review of Joseph Knox’s debut noir
16 May 2018Sirens – this week’s review in the Library Corner I was standing in Waterstones, asking for dark crime stories, when…
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…
Do criminals have free will – or is it all down to good and bad luck?
02 May 2018Do criminals have free will? If you ever thought philosophy was for people with glasses and sticking-out ears who need…
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…
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…
Darkness in the Pacific: Review – Black Water by Louise Doughty
02 Mar 2018Review: Black Water by Louise Doughty. The Library Corner – in case you missed it. Agents, publishers, books on writing…
So what’s so special about Scrivener? Review – Road Test
23 Feb 2018Scrivener review road test: What’s so special about Scrivener? Some people love it – a few hate it. Almost everything…
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…
