The story of Pericles has been told and re-told many time over the centuries, or even millennia. Although the play, generally accepted as written by William Shakespeare and George Wilkins, may be the best-known version in the English language there … Continue reading →
Intriguing, imaginative, inventive, impressive. Claire North’s character Harry August and his fellow kalachakra live Groundhog lives rather than Groundhog Days. Unlike we normal ‘linear’ folk their lives are both sequential and repetitive in time. Like the Ouroboros continually swallowing its … Continue reading →
The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper The stories of the lives of these five women have one thing in common: they show how desperately hard life was for working-class women in mid-Victorian times, and how … Continue reading →
Across the USA in a Ford Model T Tim Moore is a travel writer who specialises in coming up with daft ideas, doing them, and then writing about them. Never having driven one before, his daft idea for 2018 was … Continue reading →
An excellent story in the form of a political crime thriller set in the foothills of Pyrenean Spain towards the end of the 16th century. Carr captures the paranoia of the times with the secular state and the Inquisition both … Continue reading →
In the summer of 1967 when the rest of the world was heading to San Francisco to smoke hash and drop acid in Haight/Ashbury, I went to Finland for two months. I lived with a family in a tiny place … Continue reading →
Emma John trained as a classical violinist but abandoned any plans for a music career in her twenties when she realised she wasn’t quite good enough to play at the very highest level. She became a journalist and sports writer … Continue reading →
This is an excellent book! Almost everyone learns Pythagoras’ Theorem at school, which says that when the squares of each of the two shorter sides of a right-angle triangle are added together, the answers equals the square of the longest … Continue reading →
The second in the Jackson Lamb series. I felt it lacked a little of the tautness of the first; it ranges over an area wider than the confined London of “Slow Horses“ and the plot requires a bigger stretch of … Continue reading →
Recommended to me by an expert in the genre, this first story in a series featuring the character Jackson Lamb didn’t disappoint. It starts with a slow burn as Herron introduces his characters and sets up the basis for this … Continue reading →