2 November 2023
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Making the Low Notes: A Life in Music is an autobiography by Bill Harrison. What grabbed me was a combination of the double bass on the cover and the first part of the title. Even through, as a bassist myself, … Continue reading
16 April 2023
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I felt predisposed to like Urban Folk Tales by Y Rodriguez (picked up recently from the LibraryThing Early Reviewers programme). It sounded like the kind of piece that would be up my street; interesting characters in a landscape layered with … Continue reading
9 September 2022
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I recently had the opportunity to review the most recent edition in this annual series of anthologies. The Best of British Science Fiction is another collection of speculative short stories gathered together by Donna Scott. As always, she has managed … Continue reading
2 August 2022
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If there’s one criticism I could level against Mick O’Shea’s Pocket Guide to Glam Rock (Red Planet, 2022), it is that the author must have impressively large pockets. He covers this genre of music, which had its heyday in 1970s … Continue reading
7 January 2022
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Short, Vigorous Roots is a collection of short prose pieces published by Ooligan Press this year (I’ve got a copy via the LibraryThing Early Reviewers programme). They have been written by authors who have some experience of migrant existence and … Continue reading
6 March 2019
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Advent is not an alien invasion book like any other I have ever read. For a start, most of them fall back on cliches shared with many other genres, like paragraphs and named characters. Kamakana eschews all that. Each chapter … Continue reading
21 November 2018
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I haven’t done so many book reviews recently and fewer still that have been sourced from the LibraryThing Early Reviewers programme. Why so? It does hinge on LibraryThing, which is still running the programme with a monthly release of new … Continue reading
11 June 2018
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The painting isn’t part of my book review but I needed to get both done. For the 30x30DirectWatercolor2018 challenge, I worked up a small painting of the Rabbi, using one of the photos from the cover of the book as … Continue reading
31 May 2018
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Marie Brennan’s New Worlds, Year One: A Writer’s Guide to the Art of Worldbuilding has an accurate title. It comes from a series of posts hosted on the Book Café blog, where Brennan writes about the topic of world building. … Continue reading
8 February 2018
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One way to be a big fish is to swim in a small pond. I have to admit that this was what the cover blurb on my copy of Back Up by Paul Colize brought to mind: “the bestselling Belgian … Continue reading