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Saturday, 29 July 2017
Midsomer Murders with witches
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Paul Cornell's Witches of Lychford is a novella set in a village in rural England. Residents are divided over a proposal to build a ne...
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
The new gods of America
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" [-] there are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit-card and freeway, of internet and tel...
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Hollywood highbrow in 2050?
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" ... most of [Hollywood] 2050's productions would have seemed incomprehensibly highbrow to 1950. " Oh dear. I can't see ...
Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Pulling the wings off bluebottles
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At least two men I know admit that as children they pulled the wings off bluebottles. Frank Cauldhame, the teenage protagonist of The Wasp ...
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
Punctuation? Who cares?
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Cormac McCarthy left a lot of questions unanswered in this cold, depressing story. There are really only two characters, both remain namele...
Beach or book? Both
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It was an easy choice to make on a sunny Saturday afternoon on the Cote d'Azur. I could have gone to the beach, stretched out in the s...
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
Not my sort of thing
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Cat's Cradle made it onto the list of books I wanted to read for three reasons: first, it's an apocalyptic story, second, it's ...
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