Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
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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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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…
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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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Join the washed-up spooks in Spook Street
02 Feb 2018Spook Street: Spies, it seems, come in distinct and recognisable flavours. There’s the glamorous-sexy (Bond), the depressive-tragic (The Spy Who…
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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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Can you defend yourself from verbal attack? Review: Verbal Aikido Green & Orange Belt by Luke A Archer
19 Dec 2017It may surprise you that a verbal attack can be much trickier and more difficult to deal with than a…
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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…
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Want to get ahead? Get good habits – Review: Daily Rituals
06 Oct 2017If you want to improve at something, you can’t do better than studying the habits of people who’ve already done…
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Review – What Makes You Not a Buddhist by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
02 Aug 2017I’ve read many books on Buddhism, but this, by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, stands out as very special. In just a…
