Antwerp - Roberto Bolaño " reality seems to me like a swarm of stray sentences " I started jotting down notes towards a co...

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, who have left their stamp on Scandinavian writing. Martin Beck 1 & 2 - Roseanna & The Man Who Went U...

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Not to Disturb - Muriel Spark " 'Their life,' says Lister, 'a general mist of error. Their death, a hideous storm of...

Bilgewater - Jane Gardam " My mother died when I was born which makes me sound princess-like and rather quaint. " I was in...

Dissident Gardens - Jonathan Lethem I felt strangely ambivalent about this book while reading it, initial trepidation turning into ad...

Top 102 Albums Minus 13 No Other - Gene Clark " Some streets are easy While some are cruel Could these be reasons Why man is L...

Today you can find me doing a guest post on my selected CULT CLASSIC over in the ever harmonious residence of the (new) vinyl villain ...

30 Odd Years - Vic Godard (Gnu Inc, 2014) " Don't want to sing rock and roll " - Don't Split It My intention was ...

The Silent Cry - Kenzaburo Õe (Translated by John Bester) " "I seem to be surrounded by the odour of death," I said. ...

A Month of Sci-Fi Roadside Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1971) Childhood's End - Arthur C.Clarke (1953) Foundation - ...

2013Review/Preview2014  Looking back, I've had a pretty good hit rate with 2013's books, even if I didn't manage to read...

A Girl is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear McBride [The Vapour Trails Book of the Year 2013 ] " I know. The thing wrong. It's a....

Poems (not even a) Penyeach An easy way to keep the blog ticking over as I struggle to finish any further reviews? Here's more of my v...

The (Grey) Blades On Friday the 13th, last Friday, I attended a gig.  I hadn't seen the band in question play a gig since 1986, indee...

Day of the Ram - William Campbell Gault They say that you should never judge a book by its cover but this one jumped off the shelf. Th...

The Reivers - William Faulkner ".. Fortune is a fickle jade, who never withholds but gives, either good or bad: more of the forme...

Brother of Sleep - Robert Schneider (Translated by  Shaun Whiteside) " Come, O death, O come, sleep's brother, Lead me where...

Shave it Off! Tonight I am having my hairy face returned to what constitutes 'normal' in my world. I have been growing facial...

Vertigo - W.G.Sebald " Yes, said Lukas, there was something strange about remembering. When he lay on the sofa and thought back, i...