Have you ever been confused when buying a book online thanks to all of the peculiar abbreviations and terminology? I know that I certainly have, and it’s a source of irritation when I have to go traipsing around the Internet in order to find out what each thing actually means. Because of this, I have [...]

We are faced with the reality that we do not always like what we read or we do not agree with the material presented in bound form. So, what do we do about it? When discussing fiction, there are probably more good books then bad out there, and with so much good, why waste your [...]

…a very happy holiday! Regardless of age, gender, religion or geography, please allow me to wish everyone all the best at this time of year. It just goes to show that not even Christmas can stop I.Q from updating. granted, it’s not a review or a rant…erm…interesting article…but I thought I’d keep in with the [...]

For any fan of the HBO Television series The Wire, this book is a must. For anyone who is new to The Wire, it is a police/crime genre series set in the U.S. city of Baltimore, Maryland which ran from 2002 to 2008 and takes a multitude of perspectives on the American war on drugs; [...]

Genre: Postmodern / War Basic Plot: Four people live in an abandoned villa in Italy. All are affected by the events that have unfolded during the 2nd World War. A badly burned man lies in a bed upstairs, cared for by Hannah, a young nurse. The burned man tells the story of his past in [...]

When it comes to Hollywood, most writers are more than happy to let their books become million dollar films, and why not? They earn more money, it becomes a sign that they’ve made it to the top, and more imporantly, their book is shown to a completey new audience who may never have heard of [...]

A book that spans the course of the Second World War from its beginning to its actual aftermath, this is in my opinion possibly the definitive book for this period of history. Whilst the book depicts the actions of the Nazi Germany government at its centre, it crucially covers the actions of now revered figures [...]

First and foremost, as the owner and maintainer of Inspired-Quill, I owe all of my readers a profuse apology. Those who visit here regularly would have noticed that there were no updates last week. I have to hold my hands up and say that this was my fault, and not that of my team of [...]

Upon picking up this play and turning to the first page, the alarm bells in my mind went off like a klaxon when I read the words “…this first scene may be cut out…” Sorry to be presumptuous, M. Crimp…but surely this either means that the first scene is entirely superfluous, or you don’t trust [...]

Genre: Biography To get it out of the way, I’m not usually a fan of Biographies. Both of my grandparents have an extensive collection of these things and they’re certainly not something I’ve ever considered reading. Now, for my University dissertation I found myself having to read through a copy of ‘Anne McCaffrey, Science Fiction [...]