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• Girls Get Murdered All the Fucking Time.

  

  The Shining Girls, by Lauren Beukes I’m sick of serial killers. Serial killers are what we replaced our monsters with. We don’t believe in ghosts or goblins,... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• May Nobody Call Me an Unreliable Narrator.

  

  Where There’s Love, There’s Hate, by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo and translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Jessica Ernst Powell Some books are just... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Safe in the Knowledge That Nothing Bad Will Happen to You

  

  Thursday Night Widows, by Claudia Piñeiro and translated by Miranda France The thing about recessions is that people tend to assume they’re bad for everyone,... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• At the Beginning of the Century There Was a Strong Belief in Positivism

  

  Europeana, by Patrik Ouředník and translated by Gerald Turner Some books, often the most interesting, defy easy categorisation. Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• I Would Be Ashamed of a Book Whose Spine Was Not Broken

  

  I Murdered My Library, by Linda Grant Books breed. You start with a handful, a few shelves as a kid perhaps, but pretty soon you’re graduating to a bookcase.... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Bourgeois Gentilhomme Was One of Many Enterprises in Chelsea Which Survived...

  

  Offshore, by Penelope Fitzgerald I’ve long had a vague desire to live on a boat. As a child I went on canal boat holidays with my father’s side of the family. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Backlogs, Review Copies and Catching up

  

  I’ve just got back from a very welcome, and very overdue, two week holiday. I’ve not been doing any blogging while away (or much in the weeks prior due to... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Connant Nodded Bitterly. “I’m Human. Hurry That Test. Your eyes—Lord, I Wish...

  

  Who Goes There?, by John W. Campbell Jr. Who Goes There? is one of those books now famous(ish) because of the film that was made from it, or films I should say ... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• There Are Moments When Time Dilates Like the Pupil of an Eye, to Let Everything...

  

  The Incident Report, by Martha Baillie When I was at university, I worked for a while in a department store’s take-away food section. Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Nothing Makes You Jealous Like Something You Didn’t Actually Want in the First...

  

  The Forgotten Waltz, by Anne Enright On it’s face (and by it’s cover) The Forgotten Waltz really isn’t my sort of novel. It’s a story of an affair and the impac... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• It’s Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than the End of Capitalism

  

  Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?, by Mark Fisher I was at Morgan Stanley back in 2007 when the markets crashed. The first warning for me was when... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Victoria Exits, Walking with the Pursed Self-conscious Walk of an Actor Who Has...

  

  The Rehearsal, by Eleanor Catton The Rehearsal is a quicksilver novel, dazzling and impossible to grasp. It’s one of the finest debut novels I’ve read,... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• If I Could Capture Just One Scrap of Her Song.

  

  Orkney, by Amy Sackville Years ago I went with a client to the Buddha Bar in Paris. It was filled with overweight ugly men in their forties and older, each... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• They Had Not Conquered Any Stars. A Star Had Conquered Them.

  

  The Big Jump, by Leigh Brackett I suspect most readers of this blog won’t know Leigh Brackett’s name. You’ll know her work though, because she was a scriptwrite... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• “Oriane is a Snob”

  The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust and translated by Moncrieff, Kilmartin and Enwright Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. This is... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• … the Impotent Air-raid Siren of 400,000 Human Voices

  

  The Quickening, by Michael Bishop I’ve done a guest post for Joachim Boaz, who has a rather marvellous SF blog here. It’s a review of Michael Bishop’s award... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• ‘You Are Stubborn,’ Said Roger Nowell. ‘I Am Not Tame,’ Said Alice Nutter.

  

  The Daylight Gate, by Jeanette Winterson  THE NORTH IS the dark place. Hammer Films used to be a British institution. From the late 1950s through to the 1970s i... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Some Thoughts on #readwomen2014

  

  For those of you not familiar with it, #readwomen2014 is a campaign started on twitter by writer Joanna Walsh intended to get people reading more books by women. Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• “How is It You Keep Ending up in the Middle of Everything?”

  

  The End of Everything, by Megan Abbott I last read Megan Abbott back in 2008. Die a Little was a solid slice of 50′s-style noir and an exploration of the... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• ‘You Fool,’ He Thundered. ‘I’d Rather See You Dead Than Monkeying with Black...

  

  The Devil Rides out, by Denis Wheatley After Don Quixote I wanted a bit of readable nonsense. Something light and easy to dip into that wouldn’t require... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE