"Work as if you live in the early days of a better world." Alasdair Gray
"Work as if you live in the early days of a better world." Alasdair Gray
I’d never listened to this album or artist before this playthrough. Really enjoyed this album it, a definite feel of Jacques Brel and Kurt Weill, that feel of modernist German musicals tinged with French pop. very show-tuney. A very melancholic album, lots of retrospection and self-exploration throughout the album, which sometimes feels like prose set …
I first heard Kerry talk at a Vintage Roadshow at Forum Books, Corbridge before Christmas, this didn’t put me off though 😉 and I was really fascinated by the concept of Lowborn. Earlier this year I went to another Vintage Roadshow and was pleased to be able to pick up an advance copy of Lowborn. …
Though the story does come with a well-known ending, The Titanic Detective Agency explores the story of the Titanic from a different angle. This is the story of Bertha and her dreams, travelling from Aberdeen to America she has to fill her time and sets up the titular detective agency. Mysteries, treasure maps, friendship, and …
The Short History of Film is a brilliantly concise review of film and film theory that explains quite a lot I didn’t know about this area of the arts. Broken into four areas covering genres, key films, movements, and techniques with each section giving a bite-sized explanation of the area being covered this is another …
I received an advanced copy of this from Penguin and was so happy when it arrived. I had been hearing whispers (…) of this book on Book Twitter for a while and wanted to see for myself what it was about. We follow Riley James through what at first seems like a sci-fi/fantasy story with …
In The Mystery of the Colour Thief Izzy is beset by a lot of problems in this story, her mum is in a coma in the hospital after a car crash that she feels is her fault, her dad is not coping at all, and her best friend, Lou, is shunning her for others. This …
The Wolf and the Watchman was one of my favourite books of 2019. As I’ve probably gone on at length somewhere else, I’m not a thriller/mystery reader by nature, but this is such a wonderfully engrossing and descriptive novel of 19th century Stockholm I was dragged into this at breakneck speed and read it over …
Boy Underwater is the story of Cymbeline and his family, Cymbeline is nine-years old and his mother has avoided to teach him to swim in all those years. Then due to a school trip to the swimming pool the past unfolds itself into the present causing all sorts of problems and heartache. The exploration of …