When I first began reading this novel, I was reminded of a book I was forced to read at college, namely Enduring love by Ian McEwan. After groaning inwardly at the similarities (needless to say, I didn’t get on with the latter book at all) I continued reading, and I was extremely glad that I [...]

As far as the Daughters of Decadence and the Fien de Siecle go, I’m really not sold on most of their writing. But encountering The Yellow Wallpaper is encountering much more than the other stories; stories about women being pains in the asses, or rebelling against common norms of Victorian gender roles; all fairly straightforward. [...]

So, we’ve already gone through the [good] points of Fan Fiction, and this is where I’m now allowed to briefly discuss a number of bad points about this genre of writing. I mentioned in my last article that until very recently, I stayed as far away from Fan Fiction as possible, and I think it [...]

The plot of this novel follows a gang war in the dark underworld of Brighton, being led by the ruthless Pinkie who has killed Hale, a journalist. The killing of this character is the catalyst for Ida Arnold, a friend of Hale, to investigate and begin the chain of events leading to the book’s climax. [...]

Since Phillip K. Dick’s ‘The Man in the High Castle’, writers have often wondered ‘what if’ big historical events hadn’t turned out the way they did, and where would that leave us? This is the subject my latest review, Robert Harris’ ‘Fatherland’, a book that looks at the decisive moment in recent history- the end [...]