It may be one of the best-selling novels of all time, but Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code continues to be a polarising book. Literary critics were largely damning of the quality of the prose, while historians exposed many of Brown’s apparently true statements as wholly inaccurate. Yet The Da Vinci Code […]
Book Reviews
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Libraries Will Evolve Or Perish
Image Credit Libraries are a funny business. In many ways, they are an old relic from a long since past era where books...
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Why We Don’t Need Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Why We Don’t Need Harry Potter and the Cursed Child By Anthony Parody Okay, first things first, I am a huge Harry...
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Review: You’re Never Weird On The Internet (Almost)
Felicia Day’s new memoir, You’re Never Weird On The Internet (Almost), is the latest entry in the thriving...
Review: The Innocent
The Innocent is the fifth novel in the Ryan Lock series written by Scottish author Sean Black. The series is characterized by its fast placed plots, great main character and good premises. I’ve been a fan of this series ever since I read the first book and thoroughly enjoyed the […]
Read more ›What I Learned By Reading The Things That She Has Learnt: A Review Of ‘Not That Kind Of Girl’ By Lena Dunham
Commenting on anything Lena Dunham does is a tricky proposition – she’s the critical community’s princess as well as its piñata; everything she says is analysed for its feminist credentials and she is dissected on internet chartrooms with a fervour that is usually only reserved for the devil herself, Gwyneth […]
Read more ›The Slow Regard of Silent Things Review
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss is a gentle and slow-moving novella with a certain lack of action. In this regard, it could easily be placed on a ‘nothing-happens’ shelf beside Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Proust’s Swan’s Way: In Search of Lost Time. A second similarity […]
Read more ›From Behind the Velvet Curtain: Notes from a Literary Festival
Not many words fill us with such good feeling as the word ‘Festival’. A bubble that exists beyond the pressures and cold facts of everyday existence that can so often hang heavy upon our tired and tender shoulders. After the glory years of music festivals, I spent the summer helping […]
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