Monthly Archives: April 2017

We end our Annie and Dave month with this delightfully sinister little ditty.

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #31:- THE VELOCITY GOSPEL Steve Aylett Gollancz pb, 131pp, £9.99 This slim volume is billed as ‘Accomplice Book 2’, Accomplice being the name of the city in which the action takes … Continue reading →

Now whatever you do, don’t miss this film.

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #31:- PHAROS Alice Thompson Virago pb, 151pp, price not shown This novel is set in the 1860s, and opens with a young woman washed up on an isolated island, the site … Continue reading →

This is for the broken dreamers.

A review that originally appeared  in The Third Alternative #28:- THE LEAKY ESTABLISHMENT David Langford Big Engine pb, 209pp, £7.99 Big Engine is a new independent publisher looking to promote talented new writers, rescue popular works from out-of-print ignominy and … Continue reading →

Vampires never go out of fashion.

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #32:- IMAGINED SLIGHTS James Lovegrove Gollancz pb, 276pp, £6.99 The table of contents presents the thirteen stories that make up this collection in the form of a pie chart, which is … Continue reading →

…in an open car

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #28:- THE BURNING TIMES Jeanne Kalogridis Harper Collins hb, 385pp, £16.99 The Burning Times is set in medieval France, an age in which heresy and rumours of witchcraft were harshly dealt … Continue reading →