Category: Rants

The Cursed Child

Whatever you do, don’t read this book, I mean it, don’t do it. Unless you’ve already seen the play of course, then you can read it all you like. To read it before though, that would be an exercise of self-ruination, you’ll be cutting your nose off to spite your face. All you will have…
Read more

Cover Fire

In the course of piecing this website together one of the jobs I’ve been busy with is creating collages of covers to illustrate the author pages, this has triggered a relapse of OCD, Outrage at Cover Design changes. Upon migrating from beautiful, space consuming paper to practical, minimal electric ink I barely see the covers…
Read more

The Meh Booker Prize and the Fear of Ridicule

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…
Read more