Reading Allowed by Chris Paling The subtitle to this slight book is, True Stories & Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library. Chris Paling is a published author and librarian. In Reading Allowed, he recounts his experiences from the day to day life of such a public facility in the UK. It makes for an engaging […]
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy This is a beautifully written story of broken homes, broken hearts and broken bones. It is a coming-of-age tale that vividly depicts the good, the bad and the ugly of rural life in both Texas and Mexico in the 1940’s. John Grady Cole is a sombre sixteen […]
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells This novel was first published in 1897 and has aged remarkably well. It has been adapted a number of times for the silver screen, and the idea of invisibility is one which has captured the public imagination for millennia. When starting The Invisible Man, I was prepared to […]
Alan Partridge, Nomad by Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons and Steve Coogan Alan Partridge is a wanker. He is a complete tool who seems not to realize that he is the person at parties that others want to drown in the punch bowl, before burying his flayed body in a quicklime pit beside a nuclear reactor. […]
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