Book Review: Weathering.
[The following contains spoilers.] Lucy Wood’s Weathering is both a debut novel and that difficult second book. I approached it …
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Short Story Review: Young Skins.
It’s very hard to write about Colin Barrett’s debut collection of short fiction, Young Skins, without resorting to gender as …
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 …
Short Story Review: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.
There are ten short stories in Hilary Mantel’s latest collection, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, all of them published, mostly …
Options for Edinburgh: Scottish Nationalism or City Statehood? (5/5).
The Case for Edinburgh as a City of the Future. The first contribution to this series studied how Scottish nationalism …
Options for Edinburgh: Scottish Nationalism or City Statehood? (4/5).
[Previously on Tychy: (1/5) “The Case for Scottish Nationalism“; (2/5) “The Case for the City-State“; and (3/5) “The Case for …
Options for Edinburgh: Scottish Nationalism or City Statehood? (3/5).
[Previously on Tychy: (1/5) “The Case for Scottish Nationalism” and (2/5) “The Case for the City-State.”] The Case for the …
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, …
Short Story Review: Dear Life.
[The following contains spoilers.] Dear Life (2012) is Alice Munro’s latest and possibly last collection of short stories. If, like …
Short Story Review: The Rajah’s Diamond.
Each of the short stories within Robert Louis Stevenson’s New Arabian Nights (1878) adopts a needy young man as their …
Short Story Review: Tales from the Mall.
Let us begin with the etymology, since every time that I read the word “mall” I want to howl, “IT’S …
TV Review: The Tractate Middoth.
Why can’t the poor old BBC make ghost stories anymore? In 1968, Jonathan Miller directed an eerie, nerve-wracking adaptation of …
Short Story Review: The Suicide Club.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s three tales about the Suicide Club emerge from a heartfelt appreciation of romance, which is at once …
