Monday, 29 July 2019

Hare-raiser: Andrew Michael Hurley returns with "Starve Acre"


Hare-Raiser 

"Starve Acre" by Andrew Michael Hurley 

A review


Thursday, 25 July 2019

Velvet Underground: "The Warlow Experiment" by Alix Nathan



Velvet Underground

"The Warlow Experiment" by Alix Nathan

A book review

A reward of £50 a year for life is offered to any man who will undertake to live for 7 years underground without seeing a human face: to let his toe and fingernails grow during the whole of his confinement, together with his beard. Commodious apartments are provided with cold bath, chamber organ, as many books as the occupier shall desire.  Provisions will be served from Mr Powyss’s table. Every convenience desired will be provided

Herbert Powyss, Moreham House, Herefordshire, January 1793.

Sunday, 21 July 2019

Midsummer Murder: "A Shadow on the Lens" by Sam Hurcom


Midsummer Murder

“A Shadow on the Lens” by Sam Hurcom

Book review

Friday, 12 July 2019

Thursday, 4 July 2019

Love in the GDR: "The New Sorrows of Young W." by Ulrich Plenzdorf



Love in the GDR...

The New Sorrows of Young W. by Ulrich Plenzdorf

(translated by Romy Fursland, Pushkin Press)