Category: Book review
Where racism is the ultimate insult.
Black Lives Matter meets the Stepford Wives; where to be called racist is not only the ultimate insult, but career ending. Best-selling author Diana Gordon and her black editor Kendra Rae Phillips are... Read More
Mrs London, not quite a biography
I am conflicted with this book. On the one hand I can’t call it fan fiction as that is written in the style of a person, e.g. Jane Austen. Neither is it purely biographical as it is a fictionalisati... Read More
A Must Read
There are few books which flaw me with profound and elegant insight, but this book turns the world upside down and holds a mirror to societies evils, warts and all. This is the story of Callum and Sep... Read More
White People
This is very much the book of an activist. She highlights different incidents about working in the UK and the discrimination suffered. The tragic death of Stephen Lawrence and the difficulties surroun... Read More
A delicate prose
I don’t pretend to know anything about modern music, African food or culture, even some of the books I’ve never heard of. Yet there are aspects of this book which are very familiar. Relationships ... Read More
Show not Tell
The Crimson League I’m telling you; when I say I think this book is boring. There lies the main problem. The story is told in the third person, not shown. We need to be immersed in the scene. What h... Read More
Myth & Magic, American Gods
American Gods American Gods is essentially about what we worship as a society and for America the rituals and beliefs people brought with them to the new land. Shadow is an ex-con released to attend h... Read More
Quirky and fabulously funny.
Imagine writing a short story, getting writer’s block and asking a mate to help you finish it. Then imagine that mate is the late, great, Terry Pratchett, who you met as a young journalist when ... Read More