October 23, 2019• Books
As I write this, WeWork, the office sharing business, has just been taken over by its primary backer Softbank, themselves having invested...
September 6, 2019• Books
One of the funniest books I read last year was The Diary of a Bookseller, which in diary form, relates the trials and tribulations of...
I’ve recently begun a rewatch of perhaps the best TV adaptation of Elmore Leonard – Justitifed with Timothy Olyphant. I’m...
It’s always good to keep up with the Clarke Award, Britain’s premier SF award which this year was awarded to Tade Thompson for...
Having previously read and very much enjoyed (if that’s the right phrase) Cathy O’Neill’s Weapons of Math Destruction I...
Earlier this year, I was cycling through Fen Drayton, the Cambridgeshire nature reserve, with a friend, and he mentioned reading Waterland...
Note: I’m a little behind on some of my book reviews, so there here follows a big batch all at once! I do this mostly to have a...
A lot of Japanese novels that seem to get English translations can be quite similar, addressing universal themes of love or loneliness...
I think I picked up Fen in Blackwell’s in Oxford, drawn to it by one of those bookseller reader cards. Fen is a short story...
August 20, 2019• Books
Swan Song is a remarkable novel that explores the life of Truman Capote and his “swans” the society women he hung around with...
