Erin’s Review: The Wisdom of Dead Men, by Oisin McGann
on Nov 16, 2009 in Book Reviews Children's Young Adult Set in an alternative Victorian Steampunk world, Oisin McGann’s The Wisdom of Dead Men is the second thrilling instalment in his Wildenstern family saga. The first Wildenstern novel, Ancient Appetites, introduced a world where Queen Victoria is sti...

Jennie’s Review: Graceling, by Kristin Cashore
on Nov 13, 2009 in Book Reviews Fantasy Krisitin Cashore’s novel, Graceling, takes place in the world she wrote of in Fire. The seven kingdoms are existing in a precariously balanced peace, one that owes more to the fact that any action could be fatal than any really commitment to pe...

Michaela’s Review: Flashforward, by Robert J. Sawyer
on Nov 12, 2009 in Book Reviews Science Fiction Let me begin with the spoiler alert. A serialised television adaptation of this novel has recently been aired in the United States and is currently airing in the United Kingdom (and possibly other locations). However, I do not think fans of the ser...

Simon P’s Reviews: Strange Days Indeed, by Francis Wheen, and When The Lights Went Out, by Andy Beckett
on Nov 11, 2009 in Book Reviews History Strange Days Indeed is follow up to How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World, the book that explored, hilariously, how the modern world is under the sway of multi-form unreason, from homeopathy to conspiracy. It was the story of a world as it is thirty ye...

Do you feel lucky? Enter to win Clint Eastwood. Icon
on Nov 10, 2009 in Competitions Film Courtesy of publisher Titan Books, we have three copies of Clint Eastwood. Icon: The Essential Film Art Collection available to win. Clint Eastwood is not just a man; he is a nameless vigilante, a detective, bare-knuckle boxer, Secret Service agent,...

Erin’s Review: Generation A, by Douglas Coupland
on Nov 9, 2009 in Book Reviews Contemporary Fiction Generation X, a tale of youth in revolt against an increasingly consumerist society, was Douglas Coupland’s hugely successful first novel and he has returned, with moderate success, to the same style of framed narrative for his most recent offering...

Simon P’s Reviews: Halfway To Hollywood, by Michael Palin, and My Shit Life So Far, by Frankie Boyle
on Nov 6, 2009 in Book Reviews Biography & Memoirs Can the human mind conceive of two more disparate comedic performers than Frankie Boyle and Michael Palin? One, a psychotic motormouth at perma risk of being banned for some monstrous overstepping of the mark. The other, the epitome of the most under...

Erin’s Review: Notwithstanding, by Louis de Bernieres
on Nov 5, 2009 in Book Reviews Contemporary Fiction Short stories Miss Marple always maintained that her phenomenal capacity for solving complex crimes was down to the fact that she lived in a village; being in close proximity to a fairly small group of people in an insular community apparently having provided her...

Simon A’s Review: The Burning Land, by Bernard Cornwell
on Nov 4, 2009 in Book Reviews Historical Fiction War With The Burning Land, Bernard Cornwell’s tale of the forging of England by King Alfred of Wessex enters its fifth volume, and readers of the series will have a good idea of what to expect. There are few deviations from Cornwell’s traditi...

Jennie’s Review: Wake, by Lisa McMann
on Nov 3, 2009 in Book Reviews Young Adult People often look their most peaceful when asleep.  Whatever the dream that is going on within them, outwardly peace and contentment often reign.  What, though, if you could see what they were dreaming?  What if you experienced the dreams, nightma...