I just finished reading a second Blood Bowl novel, better than the first. The lousy editing has gone, it’s easier to keep track of who’s who because the author murders 11 members of the 16[…]
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Category: Reviews
The World According To Danny Dyer
It hardly needs to be said that The World According To Danny Dyer is a strange book. I thought it was strange and I’d finished it last week, just before I went on the tramadol.[…]
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Blood Bowl – the novel
Right now, my world smells and tastes like chalk. I think it’s either a side effect or a direct effect of all the painkillers I’m on – the horse-pill sized paracetamol, the tiny green tramadol,[…]
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Blockers
Blockers is a comedy about teenagers having sex, built for their parents’ generation, like a retooled Superbad. Three girls meet on the first day of school and grow up together, firm friends. We’re introduced to[…]
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Forever And A Day
I read Anthony Dershowitz’ Trigger Mortis, a sequel to Goldfinger where James Bond unequivocally does not get Pussy Galore, at the start of 2017. In the mood for a bit more retro-Bond action, I downloaded[…]
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Ocean’s 8
After putting the kids to bed, we drove out to Dartmouth Crossing, a retail park a few miles away from where we’re staying, where we always try to catch a film during our visit. Memorable[…]
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The Wallcreeper
I finished The Wallcreeper, sold to me alongside Mislaid, feeling a little disappointed, although the fault may have been more with me than the book.
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Mislaid
At a bit of a loss at what to do, I read an issue of the London Review of Books and a review of Nell Zink’s most recent books, Nicotine and Private Novelist, piqued my[…]
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The Philosopher And The Wolf
This week I read Mark Rowlands’ The Philosopher And The Wolf, a paperback my father gave me on his most recent visit to Singapore. I was surprised to see when I finished it that it’s[…]
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The Grey Knights Omnibus
I finished The Grey Knights Omnibus, a bible-sized paperback containing three different novels about the Grey Knights, the super elite daemon-hunters among the super elite super soldiers of the Imperium, that strange Gothic/Roman/whatever you want[…]
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