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 [...]

Well with one thing and another, I find myself with not a lot of time to spare just recently. I’ve been accused of spending just as much time writing and doing ‘backstage’ work for I.Q. as I spend working on my degree, and I’ve got to admit that at the moment, it isn’t too far [...]

This is the first of three articles, all about the phenomena that is Fan Fiction. Until a couple of months ago, I was dead set against Fan Fiction. But my mind has changed a little recently, which is why I have decided to start out on a good foot when it comes to this mini-series [...]

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 [...]

If you thought genetic engineering was a recent thing, then you’re dead wrong. When most people consider the roots of science fiction to lie with Jules Verne, whose legacy includes stories of submarines and journeying to thetars s a long time befor technology and B movies could get that far, I compare him to a [...]

Normally I do my best to read a piece of literature without first having any sort of preconceptions about how good or bad it’s going to be. If I think I’m going to be bias, I simply either don’t read the book, or just wait until those conceptions have passed. (I think I’ll be waiting [...]