Book Review: Weathering.
[The following contains spoilers.] Lucy Wood’s Weathering is both a debut novel and that difficult second book. I approached it …
Category Archives: Literary Review
Book Review: The Tell-Tale Heart.
The eighth and latest novel from the English author Jill Dawson initially appears to share nothing other than a name …
Book Review: Printer’s Devil Court.
[The following contains spoilers.] Susan Hill’s Printer’s Devil Court was first published as a Kindle Single last year and as …
Book Review: Kim Philby, The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy.
Where the Soviet double-agent Kim Philby was a traitor to Britain he was at once a stranger to his oldest …
Book Review: Descent.
[The following contains spoilers.] Ken MacLeod goes to great trouble to try and disqualify his writing as literature. As usual, …
Book Review: Blossom, What Scotland Needs to Flourish.
“Come on children, hurry up! You’ll need to cycle faster than that if we’re going to make it to the …
Book Review: William Maginn and the British Press.
Is judgement finally nigh for the doctor? Until now nobody has written a complete biography of Doctor William Maginn (1794 …
Book Review: Rennie Sparks’ Wilderness.
I have been always faintly embarrassed by music journalism and one of the founding resolutions of this website was to …
Corstorphine Hill Mystery Letter.
Here is the text of a handwritten letter which I today found (and left) taped to the bench at the …
Book Review: The Magician.
[The following contains spoilers.] There is a lot of bad blood to W. Somerset Maugham’s The Magician (1908). If this …
Book Review: When the Edelweiss Flowers Flourish.
[The following contains spoilers.] Tychy has been given a gift: a new English translation of Begenas Sartov’s 1978 novel When …
Readings of Ringstones: Calmahain.
[Tychy has previously written about “A Christmas Story,” “Capra” and “The Khan.” Ed.] Sarban’s Ringstones and Other Curious Tales (1951) …
Book Review: If You Could See Me Now.
[The following contains spoilers.] There is no doubt that Miles Teagarden has been distilled from the psychic juices of his …
Book Review: Unstated, Writers on Scottish Independence.
The University of Stirling’s Scott Hames has compiled a book of 27 essays about Scottish independence. The essays were written …
Book Review: Susan Hill’s Dolly.
[The following contains spoilers.] If Susan Hill remains nostalgic for the traditional English ghost story, she usually sets the coordinates …
