Book Review: Secret Edinburgh, An Unusual Guide.
Edinburgh’s Doors Open Day, an event which is no doubt so wonkily titled to avoid the acronym ODD, will see …
Category Archives: Literary Review
Book Review – The Corporation Wars: Dissidence.
Now the hurly-burly’s done, or at least now that we are on the sunny side of Brexit, let us catch …
Book Review: GMO Sapiens, The Life-Changing Science of Designer Babies.
Paul Knoepfler is a scientist and an educator. He conducts research into stem cells and cancer at the University of …
Book Review: Nightwalking, A Nocturnal History of London.
My life is filled with the constant swish of walking. I live in Edinburgh, a capital city without a Tube …
Book Review: A Duty to Offend.
I still have a schoolboy tendency to mumble when faced with a pretty girl. The Blackwell’s till girl smiles with …
Book Review: The Casualties, A Novel.
[The following contains spoilers.] An incoming meteorite, after being presumably broken into several pieces by a botched nuclear strike, has …
Book Review: Empire of Fear, Inside the Islamic State.
Over a billion pounds of UK international aid is now going to alleviate the suffering of Syrian refugees, and the …
Is Atticus Still Atticus? (A Review of Go Set A Watchman.)
Let us start by considering the dubiousness of all this. Go Set A Watchman is a radical first draft of …
Book Review: Finding the Holy Path.
Kara-Choro, a boy on the cusp of manhood, learns that his father is Tagay-bii, the legendary leader of the Kyrgyz …
Short Story Review: Not Exactly Ghosts.
There are two volumes of Sir Andrew Caldecott’s short stories, Not Exactly Ghosts and Fires Burn Blue, which were published …
Book Review: Weathering.
[The following contains spoilers.] Lucy Wood’s Weathering is both a debut novel and that difficult second book. I approached it …
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, …
