Books

December 25, 2021• Books

Tour de Force by Mark Cavendish

I should probably preface this review by saying that I know one of the Cavendish’s ghostwriters, Daniel Friebe. So make of that what...

December 25, 2021• Books

The latest book from Michael Connelly feels as contemporary as anything he’s written recently. Connelly always says that his books...

December 25, 2021• Books

In The Second Cut we revisit the world of Rilke, who readers first came across in Louise Welsh’s fantastic debut The Cutting Room. Rilke...

December 25, 2021• Books

I’ll start by saying that I absolutely loved this novel set in the world of independent computer games from the 90s onwards. It took me a...

November 22, 2021• Books

On Saturday, I went for a nice long bike ride, and along the way listened to some podcasts including that morning’s new episode of...

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...

September 21, 2021• Books

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...

September 21, 2021• Books

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...

September 21, 2021• Books

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• 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...