September 21, 2021• Books
Alongside The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, this is probably the most important, and affecting novel that I’ll...
One of the most anticipated novels of the year doesn’t disappoint, delivering in large part what you expect it to deliver. Alice is a...
Squeeze Me came out last year, but for some reason I’d been sitting on it rather than reading it. That’s my stupidity because...
This an enjoyable steampunk romp through a 1912 Cairo in which magic and djinns exist in a world related, yet unrelated to North Africa at...
September 20, 2021• Cycling
Sometime around 1995 or 1996, I bought a Giant ATX 850 mountain bike. This was a rigid bike – not even any front suspension. It had...
September 20, 2021• Books
This is the new book from Ben Mezrich, author of The Accidental Billionaires, the book that became the movie, The Social Network. It covers...
August 25, 2021• Books
The key thing to know about this book is that if you liked The Thursday Murder Club, then you will love this! The gang is all back –...
August 13, 2021• Books
Having just read one novel, where there’s a book-within-a-book as a key part of the plot, I turned to The Plot by Jean Hanff...
August 12, 2021• Books, Technology
Recently Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to Casey Newton of The Platformer, for both his newsletter and The Vergecast podcast. It was a...
August 12, 2021• Books
I’m not sure what kind of deal Stephen King has with his publishers (Simon & Schuster in the US, Hodder & Stoughton in the...
