Monthly Archives: May 2023

Out this Friday.

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at the TTA Press website on 30/11/22: – Writer Glen Duncan has had a varied career. Initially he wrote books that were marketed as literary, but often with genre elements … Continue reading →

Track eight from Elton’s seventh album.

This post follows on from Books Read in 2014, which I posted at the end of April 2023. In 2015 I read one hundred and fifty books, three down from the previous year, with the emphasis still on books to review … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #17:- John Probert’s collection WICKED DELIGHTS (Atomic Fez hardback, 352pp, £22.99) contains eighteen stories, six of which are previously unpublished. Unlike other Probert collections that I’ve read or heard about, this one … Continue reading →

Out in early June and based on a story by Stephen King.

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at the TTA Press website on 23/11/22: – TV producer Michael Morley turned his hand to writing in 2008 with Spider (Penguin pb), the book’s title being the name that the infamous … Continue reading →

I’ll have what she’s having.

Camilla Bruce’s You Let Me In was my favourite book of 2020 and one day I intend to read it again, both for pleasure and so that I can write a review that does it justice, or perhaps discover that … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #17:- John Llewellyn Probert is one of those writers for whom the story is everything. There may be serious concerns at back of his fiction, those subtexts the critics love to uncover … Continue reading →