The shortlist for the 2018 Man Booker prize, the fiftieth edition no less, was announced on Thursday. Six books have been plucked from the longlist, which itself is selected from all the novels written in English and released in the UK during 2018, a pretty large field one imagines. That shortlist: Everything Under; The Long…
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Remember when the original Kindle was released? For those of us in the UK, that was the Kindle Keyboard in 2010 apparently (seems like it’s been around a lot longer than 8 years), although it was possible to import from the US as far back as 2007 (looking at those original 2007 models now, they…
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Just in case anyone out there has found this website/blog yet (I doubt it, I googled www.tomeopathy.com specifically and this website still wasn’t on the first few pages of results, so I’m not really sure how anyone could just stumble across it), welcome to Tomeopathy. At this stage I thought I’d let anyone who has…
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What’s that noise? It’s the sound of a new born blog. Air is sucked into its lungs and expelled in a blood curdling shriek as the warm cosiness of the womb is exchanged for the cold harsh reality of newly exposed vulnerability. The high pitched wail tapers off as breath expires and another sharp…
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