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THE REVIEW SECTION - Index of all reviews 2006-2008
Children's Book reviews - - Review Archives 1999-2005

In Bruges
Director and Writer: Martin McDonagh
Cast:
Colin Farrell
Ralph Fiennes
Brendan Gleeson

Tag: Shoot first. Sightsee later.
'Sharp, witty and bleak hitman comedy that harks back to 'Get Garter' days and is easily one of the best films of 2008 so far.'
Sam North - Hackwriters

FILM
BOOKS & MUSIC
2008
Iron Man
Directed by Jon Favreau
Starring Robert Downey jnr, Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow
Jack Clarkson review
Nobody but Robert Downey Jr. himself could ever have played Tony Stark quite so well

Wristcutters: A Love Story
Director: Goran Dukic
Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham, Shannyn Sossamon
Calvin Hussey review
To judge a book, or DVD as it were, by its cover the title "Wristcutters" doesn’t exactly conjure up the most positive of images.

The Beast Of Yucca Flats
Directed by Coleman Francis.
With Tor Johnson, Barbara Francis, Bing Stafford.
Dan Schneider
how I missed this is beyond me; especially given that its lead star is the truly legendary Tor Johnson, of Plan 9 From Outer Space infamy.
Alien v Predator Requiem
J A Laraque
Alien vs. Predator Requiem is a dark film with little room for humans.
Shoot ‘em Up
Directed by Michael Davis, Starring: Clive Owen
Daniel Alves
‘Shoot ‘em Up’ is a film about a man shooting things. Lots of things. It’s not a story about romance
Jumper (2008)
Director - Doug Liman
Calvin Hussey
Despite its intriguing premise Jumper seems to fall flat on its face in many key areas.
Kidulthood - A Contemporary Classic Directed By; Aml Ameen
Calvin Hussey

A film deserving of being recognised as one of the great contemporary commentaries of our current times.


Still out there- still brilliant
The Oscar winner Juno
(best screenplay)

Burnout Paradise
Developed by Criterion Games: EA
Jack Clarkson review
Burnout is about speed and pushing your reflexes to fighter pilot levels
The History Boys by Alan Bennett
Wyndhams Theatre
Chris Churcher

Alan Bennett's style of writing is as topical as ever

2008
Dr. King's Refrigerator, & Other Stories, by Charles Johnson
Dan Schneider

American novelist Charles Johnson has published three collections of short stories... this third collection, released by Scribner's in 2005, is by far the weakest.

Paris Chic & Trendy by Adrienne Ribes-Tiphaine
(The Little Bookroom)
ISBN-13: 978-1892145536

Tiffany Lee review

Paris Chic & Trendy is the ultimate handbag sized, fashionista bible.

The Last Vampire, Red Dice & Phantom
By Christopher Pike
Chris Burden
The Last Vampire is a series charting the adventures of Sita, a kick-ass five thousand year old vampire with an attitude. This is a high octane, gripping novel

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Jenny Adamthwaite review
A Thousand Splendid Suns follows the lives of two women born nearly twenty years apart.
The Way I See It by Nicole Dryburgh
Holly Bates
The autobiography of a truly amazing woman, "The Way I See It" is Nicole Dryburgh’s account of the emotional and challenging years of her life from the age of eleven when she was diagnosed with a malignant tumour on her spine.

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Charlie Dickinson
The premise of Marie Phillips's debut novel, GODS BEHAVING BADLY, makes a certain sense if your old Methuselah self has been around a long time, say, even thousands of years.
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Review by Jack Clarkson
Scott Lynch seems to share the cynical imagination that Terry Pratchett used to make Discworld so popular. The characters were likeable and hate-able in all the right places.

The Farewell Angel
Carmen Martin Gaite
Anna-Marie Dover
Some works of fiction can be read in just a few sittings; others take somewhat longer. The Farewell Angel is not a book to be rushed.
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
Lisa Timmermann
Its unsympathetic protagonist should put off even the most insensitive reader.
Fishing Explorer – a life at sea and a mystery
Quentin Bates

It’s been a good few years now since I met Ernie Suddaby. Someone mentioned to me that a former fisherman had a story to tell and had written a book about fishing that he was trying to get published –maybe we could help each other out?
Women of Iron by Catherine King.
Claire Holland review
Set in the Yorkshire South Riding during the Industrial Revolution, the story takes place amongst the canals of Humberside and the barges that keep the lifeblood (the iron trade) flowing.

Inca Trails by Martin Li
Review by Lisa Timmermann

A fascinating and engaging study of Bolivian and Peruvian culture and history, ‘Inca Trails’ narrates the author’s journey through the former birthplace and short-lived empire of the Incas.

Another Place to Die – Sam North
Calvin Hussey
Stunning, scarily feasible, and extremely engrossing throughout,
2007
Best & Worst Movies of 2007
Hackwriters makes the list

The Golden Compass
Directed by Chris Weitz
Sam North review

'Brilliant production. Mrs Coulter is truly evil. The Bear battles are terrifying, the daemons are just wonderful - Lyra is a tough little cookie. Roll on 'Subtle Knife'.
Save The Cheerleader
Heroes: A Cultural Phenomenon
Calvin Hussey & Ruby Harrison

Heroes is rapidly becoming a cultural phenonemon

Control (2007)
Directed by Anton Corbijn
Russ Thomas

Starring Samantha Morton and Sam Riley Control is the tragic story of Ian Curtis, ex-frontman for Joy Division

Ratatouille
Nicloe Folger

This has to be the best Disney/Pixar film I have seen in an awfully long time. This is the one that will be joining the classics
Superbad Greg Mottola (Director),
Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg (writers)
Russ Thomas

Superbad is testament to the fact that teen movies based in and around American high schools will never be exhausted.

Transformers
Directed by Michael Bay - starring Shia LaBoeuf
Jack Clarkson

When I went to see Transformers it was a pleasant and heartwarming romantic comedy that I would have enjoyed even more if Michael Bay hadn’t kept bringing in all those scenes with the Giant Robots!

The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)DVD
Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 2006,
Josef Fiser
review
There are different ways how film-makers from formal satellite states of the Soviet Union deal with their communist past.

Reign Over Me (DVD review)
Directed by Mike Binder
Josef Fiser

Dr. Johnson a dentist, meets his friend Charlie (A.Sandler) whose family died in one of the planes on 9/11, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder

Babel (2006)
Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarrito
Starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchette
Tabitha Parkes
A simple gunshot takes us on a journey from Morocco to America through to Mexico and into Japan

The Invasion (2007) Dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel
Starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig
Stephanie Vile Review

I was really excited to go and see this film because I like horror films.

Borat: Dir. Larry Charles
Emma King

If there was ever a comedy that made such a phenomenal impact on its audience, it must be Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Shoot'Em Up
Written and Directed by Michael Davis
starring Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci

Sam North

Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang, was smart as a whip and self knowing, Smokin’ Aces, was relentless and often funny, despite the inevitable bloodbath and Bourne Ultimatum was slick like a machine with dizzying but refreshing cinema verité action photography. So what the hell is Shoot Em’ Up?

Heart Of Glass
Dan Schneider

German filmmaker Werner Herzog is not an artist to be underestimated, even in his lesser films, like 1976's Heart Of Glass (Herz Aus Glaus) because his films tend to have a cumulative power,

The Wild Party
Tiffany Lee

Crash landing right in the middle of an age obsession with chaos and scandal, soon to be dramatic legend Rosie Kay has hurled at us a play that cannot be silenced.
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Aby Davis

I bought Radioheads new album online. It set me back £1
FRESA Y CHOCOLATE (Strawberry and Chocolate)
Dir: Tomas Gutierrez Alea & Juan Carlos Tabio
Anne Marie-Dover
A bigoted and fervently heterosexual young man and an older, decadent homosexual non-conformist artist is already very promising, the plot reveals a sensitivity that has made Fresas y Chocolate one of the most celebrated Latin American films of the 90’s.

SAW 1V

Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Calvin Hussey

The film starts with perhaps the most climatic opening sequence of the series as we see a blinded man pitted against a silenced man in a high-octane clash

V for Vendetta (DVD)
Dir James McTeigue
Robert Hillum

When V for Vendetta was originally written, way back when, over two and a half decades ago, the political power was very different to the ones in power now, but being politics what very different is, eventually becomes the same.

Brazil (1985) Directed by Terry Gilliam.
Russ Thomas reappraisal

With such films as Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Time Bandits behind him, one has to expect a little surrealism with Terry Gilliam

This is England Directed by Shane Meadows
Tiffany Lee
Every now and then a film emerges that grabs you by the eyeballs and prevents you from ever being the same. Britain hasn’t achieved this since Ewan McGregor asked "who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?"

Black Sheep
Madeleine Collis

Never looking at sheep in quite the same way again is a by product of viewing "Black Sheep".


Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Dir: Shekar Kapur
Anna-Marie Dover
Brilliant costumes a historical drama do not make

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Paul Rumble

Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War comedy is positively chilling. Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union over fifteen years ago, Dr. Strangelove still remains frighteningly relevant

300 (DVD)
Directed by Zack Snyder
Jack Clarkson

World renowned historian Frank Miller enlightens us all on what really happened at the battle of Thermopylae.

All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Russ Thomas

Few films can boast relevance to all eras. All Quiet On The Western Front, a 1930 screen adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel– written from a German perspective – is one of these films.

Pride and Prejudice (BBC 1995)
Director: Simon Langton
Emma King
Out of all the historical fiction out there, my favourite has to be the 1995 BBC’s six hour adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
Munich
Richard Parry
On the 5th September 1972, with the Summer Olympics in their second week of competition, eleven members of the Israeli athletics team were killed in what would later become known as the ‘Munich Massacre’.

Star Wars: A New Hope
Dir. George Lucas
Robert Hillum
1977 was a good year to be a geek. If there were a moment in time I would travel back to, this would be it.

Perfume: A Story Of A Murderer
Director: Tom Tykwer
Aby Davis
review
The opening sequence of Perfume: A Story Of A Murderer stinks. I mean, it almost literally smells. Which is probably the affect director Tom Tykwer was after

Deus Ex
Developed by Ion Storm
Jack Clarkso
review
"Deus Ex" is the first half of the Latin saying, "Deus Ex Machina", God from the machine. Nowadays it’s the term for a plot device in which something comes along and just makes everything better like some kind of narrative Chuck Norris.

2007
John Dies At The End by David Wong

Jack Clarkson

If Douglas Adams had written Horror instead of Science Fiction he would have written something a bit like this

Kings of Leon
Aby Davis review

On the 10th of December 2007, the Kings of Leon opened their Birmingham NIA set in a burst of yowling voice and raunchy guitar.
Behind You! by Linda Regan
Daniel Alves review

Life long feuds, unsolved hatreds, and more than enough lies to twist the plot into a maze. This detective novel boasts all the themes that darken in the eye of betrayal; sex, money, and murder.
Understanding Miss Jones
Alana Hebenton
Bridget Jones’s diary chronicles the life of the attractive thirty something Bridget, round a year’s worth of her diary entries
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Matt Alison

On my recent rereading of The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald I felt that I truly grasped and appreciated the importance of this classic.
Bob Dylan and his Band play Seattle
Jeffrey Beyl
listens to Modern Times
I was eleven years old when I first heard Bob Dylan. I was singing what is still to this day my all-time favorite song, Mr. Tambourine Man.
On The Road @ 50
Jack Kerouac's Peripatetic Ode
You're not really writing a book till you begin to take liberties with it - Jack Kerouac
James Campion

Jean-Louis Le bris de Kerouac wrote the above in a 1949 journal two years removed from his first of three free-wheeling cross-country road trips
Faculty of Color: Teaching in Predominantly White Colleges and Universities, Christine A. Stanley (Editor)Anker Publishing Company, 2006, pp373.
Dr Mawan Asmar review

Reem Al Haj Ali moved from being a dental student at the University of Jordan into an award winning professor at the School of Dentistry at the University of Missouri, Kansas in the United States.
The Writing Escapade
Marwan Asmar

‘Words and sentences take a life of their own, dancing in front of you, picking themselves up from the gray lines and pages and appealing to your senses and thoughts.'
Turning The Wheel by Charles Johnson
Dan Schneider

Charles Johnson is a fictionist best known for his award winning novels like Oxherding Tale, Middle Passage, and Dreamer. He is one of the rare published writers and intellectuals willing to publicly state his displeasure with the current low state of American writing.

Another Place to die by Sam North
Ian Middleton Review
A powerful portrayal of an underestimated threat. Fascinating, frightening and compelling read.
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Sam North Review

At last I thought, a new novel not a collection of short stories. The thrill of a new Murakami was present. I settled down to read and within one chapter I was once again wondering what has happened to this author...
New Moon by Stepahnie Meyer
Nicole Foulger review

Stephenie Meyer loses none of the drama in New Moon the sequel to the breathtaking Twilight. We enter back into the mind and life of ordinary teen Bella who has the most extraordinary boyfriend-Edward Cullen, a Vampire.
The Savage Altar by Asa Larsson
A Josephine Green review

The Savage Altar is Larsson’s first thriller and this unusual piece of detection takes us into the hidden depths of Sweden and a cult that holds many individuals secrets, lies and fates
Perishable by Dirk Jamison
Charlie Dickinson review
Dirk Jamison's childhood memoir, PERISHABLE, is about, among other things, a dad who decides a few minutes of daily Dumpster diving will  put food on the table for the family.
The Sorrows of Young Pamuk
Istanbul: Memories of a City
Stefanie Stiles
Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul has the feeling of a biography written about a lost and lovely woman by a still-besotted ex-lover; it is an elegy for the city of Pamuk's youth.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Sam North review
'Papa,' she whispered. 'I think I am going to hell.'

Remarkable compelling WW2 story
Salmonella Men on Planet Porno by Yasutaka Tsutsui
Translated by Andrew Driver

Sam North review
'A terrific introduction to this hilarious and perceptive Japanese Sci-Fi author.'
The Frugal Book Promoter by Carolyn Howard Johnson
Ian Middleton review of essential POD advice
Swan Lake On Ice
The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Performances: Monday Feb 19th – Saturday Feb 24th
Jo Green -
A brillant night out
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Dan Schnieder
- a bad book by a bad writer
The Rough Guide to Slovenia - Edition 2
By Norm Longley
Ian Middleton review
Insightful and informative, Rough Guide to Slovenia is an essential part of anyone’s Slovenia travel kit!

White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
Dan Schneider
I get really tired of negative criticism. In it, a reviewer who is scared shitless of making an enemy of a writer, or a publishing house, writes a few mild rebukes of the writer, but ...in the end praises the writer as being terrific, as a person, and that it was just this book, or a portion of it, that failed.
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Nicole Foulger
A gripping romantic vampire story with bite.
..
Everyman by Philip Roth
Josef Fiser
It just opens the door. It is like a picture, nicely painted picture which can just please you by its colours as well as take you as deep into life (and death) matters as you can stand.
Londonstani by Gautam Malkani,
Anna-Marie Dover
Londonstani bursts with strong colours and fast action. Written in the first person, with a believable and strong dialogue, this novel’s vivid imagery jumps out of the page like a Roy Lichtenstein cartoon.

Holly’s Inbox by Holly Denham
Chris Burden

Holly’s Inbox tells the story of this year’s Bridget Jones, Holly Denham, a lovable, modern woman with the flaws of a real person.
Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
Madeleine Collis

Yet Mansfield Park takes the feminine ideal in a direction so far north of any modern reality it’s almost unfathomable to believe in such a world.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Written By: Frank Miller 1986
Stephen Doyle

The Dark Knight Returns is long considered to be one of ‘the’ graphic novels to be read. It is often held in high regard alongside Watchmen, Maus and The Sandman

Man Bites Dog
Directed by Remy Belvaux
Paul Rumble
Benoit is well-spoken, well-dressed, often witty and loves to quote poetry. He also likes to kill people.

Machuca (2004)
Directed by Andres Wood
Tabitha Parkes

30,000 children killed. 100,000 arrested without trial. 22,000 expelled. 150,000 exiled. Chile 1973

Stalin’s Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith
Louise Webster
For those who want something perhaps slightly unusual or written with depth, then this book is highly recommended - it is definitely a compelling read.
The Last Great Dance On Earth by Sandra Gulland
Ruby Harrison

‘I was not born for such grandeur’ Josephine, in a letter to her daughter Hortense.

Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe (1722)
Daniel Alves

Moll Flanders tells us everything that could not be spoken about in the eighteenth century. Pretending to be factual truth, this novel explores the taboos of the time.

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (1898)
Stephen Doyle

The War of the Worlds is the forerunner of that science-fiction staple, the ‘Alien Invasion’ story. Independence Day and dozens of other movies, books, and TV programmes pay homage to this original tale,

The Sorrows of Young Werther
Author: Goethe
Joseph Grosso

However if there is one work that must be named as having captured my personal Sublime as having described my own life experience up till now, it would have to be Goethe’s groundbreaking novel
'Sorrows'
Consequences… Don’t call me baby by Laurie Depp
Alana Hebenton

Don’t call me baby creates a realistic teenage voice with is use of contemporary cultural references to ‘Hello’ magazine and celebrities like David Beckam,
An Artist Of The Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Dan Schneider
Kazuo Ishiguro's 1986 novel, An Artist Of The Floating World, which won that year's Whitbread Prize, may be a great novel
Call Me Elizabeth
Dawn Annandale
Emma King review

A story of abuse, rape, prostitution, marriage, money and family values, there are few issues Call Me Elizabeth doesn’t explore.

The Wayward Wind by Ashleigh Bingham
Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd (1 Nov 2007)
Lisa Timmermann review
At its best, Ashleigh Bingham’s The Wayward Wind can be described as an atmospheric and suspenseful adventure novel

2006
Pan's Labyrinth Directed by Guillermo Del Toro
Jen Ames review

Children of Men Dir A. Cuaron
Jen Ames review

Nine Lives Dir Rodigro Garcia
A Dan Schnieder DVD review
Everything is Illuminated - Dir Liev Shrieber
A Dan Schnieder DVD review
Mission Impossible: 3
Danille Ward
A Bittersweet Life - Dir Ji-Woon-Kim
Robert Cottingham review

V for Vendetta Dir James McTeigue
A Clare Sager/Gemma Williams review
Six Shooter- Dir Martin Donagh Oscar winner
Sacha Markin review
Once upon a time in the West - Sergio Leone -
A Dan Schnieder review

Match Point - Dir Woody Allen
A Rob Cottingham review

Underworld: Evolution - Dir Len Wiseman
A Kate Maskell review

The New World Dir Terrence Malick
A Dan Schnieder Review

Walk the Line Dir James Mangold
A Gabriela Davies Review

A Very Long Engagement
A Dan Schnieder review

Grizzly Man
A Dan Schnieder Review

Lucky Number Slevin Dir Paul McGuigan
A Sam North review

Why We Fight Directed by Frank Capra
Dan Schnieder review

George Washington Directed by David G Green
Dan Schnieder
The Assassination of Richard Nixon Dir Neils Mueller

Dan Schnieder review

The Five Obstructions Dir Lars Von Trier
Dan Schnieder

Russian Dolls Dir Cedric Klapisch
Robert Cottingham reivew
Die Mommie Die!
Dir Mark Rucker
A Dan Schnieder DVD review

The Magdelene Sisters
Dan Schnieder review
Address Unknown
Directed by Kim ki Duk
Robert Cottingham review
A Great Day In Harlem
Dan Schneider jazz DVD review

The Devil wears Prada
Gabriela Davies
Good Bye Lenin
Dan Schnieder DVD review
Signs Dir M Night Shyamalan (DVD)
Liz Barlow
Flight 93 v World Trade Center
Holly Joy compares two 9/11 movies

Sin City DVD Miller/Rodrigez
Claire Murray
Iklimler (Climates)
Carly McClain
Pride and Prejudice (DVD 2005)
Jo Green review
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
James Campion previews the Hunter S Thompson doc
The Celibate Nymphomanic by Amy Dunmall
One Night Only at the Wiltshire Studio One
Natalie Tehrani review
Happy Feet
A Sam North Review
49 Up (2005 DVD)
Dan Schneider

One of the great filmic projects of the 20th Century
Dead Mans Shoes (2004) Director: Shane Meadows
Carly Mclain

HARRY POTTER and the Order of the Phoenix
Directed by David Yates
A Gemma Ayres review

Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne)
Director: Guillaume Canet

Sam North review
of new French thriller
Music and Lyrics
Written and directed by Marc Lawrence
Starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore
Liz Barlow
review
Blood Diamond Directed by Edward Zwick
A Holly Joy review of the conflict diamond thriller

Stranger Than Fiction Dir. Marc Foster
Rosie Wheatcroft
review
a film confused in both its message and genre, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s performance is a shining beacon
Everyday People
Directed by Jim McKay
A Dan Schnieder DVD review
March of the Penguins v Happy Feet
Rosie Wheatcroft compares the Penguin movies
2006 was the Chinese year of the dog. In Hollywood, it was undoubtedly the year of the penguin
Somersalt (DVD review)
Director: Cate Shortland/with Abbie Cornish 2004
Somersault is one of those films that stay with you long after you watch it.
Bobby Directed by Emilio Estevez
Sacha Markin review
Look Both Ways (DVD review)
Directed by Sarah Watts
Carly McLain
The Pursuit of Happyness
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Gabriela Davies
The Good German
Directed by Steven Soderberg

Sam North review
Amadeus Directed by Milos Foreman
A Dan Schnieder DVD review

The Wild Bunch DVD review
Dan Schneider
Director Sam Peckinpah’s two hour and twenty-five minute long 1969 Western classic, The Wild Bunch is an important film

My Best Friend
Directed by Patrice Leconte
Starring Daniel Auteuil and Dany Boon
Contrivance: An artifice, the slightest, flimsiest idea to hang a movie on
Cries And Whispers
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Dan Schneide
r
Cries And Whispers, a 1972 film of Ingmar Bergman's, is not the masterpiece that it's claimed to be.


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2006
A Year in Japan by Kate T Williamson
A Charlie Dickinson review
Embracing Family by Nobuo Kojima
A Charlie Dickinson Review

Temping by Kirby Olsen
A Charlie Dickinson review - satiric Seattle based novel

Angel on the Roof: Russell Banks short story collection
A Dan Schnieder review

I have landed by Stephen Jay Gould
A Dan Schnieder review

Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
A Charlie Dickinson review

Naked by David Sedaris
Dan Schneider

Small Maps of the World by Brooke Biaz
Suzannah Brooksbank review

A Note of Madness by Tabitha Suzuma
A Gill James review
The Wave by Walter Mosely
A Charlie Dickinson review
Where I've been, where I'm going by Joyce Carol Oates - A Dan Schnieder critique
Five Decades by Irwin Shaw
A Dan Schnieder review
A World Apart by Caro Fraser
A Marcel D'Agneau review

Illmore Chronicles: The Dwellings Debacle by David Lee Stone - A Keren Arnold review
A Mouth Like Yours by Daniel Duane
A Charlie Dickinson Review
Mack and Mabel - The Musical
Ben Macpherson at the preview
Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett
Gabriela Davies review
Disgrace by J M Coetzee
A Dan Schnieder review
Waiting by Ha Jin
A Dan Schnieder review

Long Way Back by Brendan Halpin
A Charlie Dickinson review

Tremble and Ennui by Edgar Nicaud
A Charlie Dickinson review of the New Orleans satire

American Tabloid by James Ellroy
Michael Halmshaw review
Them by Jon Ronson
Dan Schnieder review

Desert Rain by Wallace Dorian
Barbara Kowal review
Cane by Jean Troomer
Dan Schnieder review

Tales of the Night by Peter Hoeg
Dan Schnieder
Alice L Hutchinson on Kenneth Anger
Ginnete Ballard

At The Inland Sea by Edward Bond
Chris Churcher stage review

The Man From Perfect by Andrea Semple
Lynn Ede review

Lessons in Essence by Dana Standbridge
A Charlie Dickinson review

The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
A Charlie Dickinson review

A Jacques Barzun Reader
A Dan Schnieder review
Same Place, Same Things, by Tim Gautreaux
Dan Schneider review

In the Pool by Hideo Okuda
A Charlie Dickinson review

Riding with Strangers by Elijah Wald
A Charlie Dickinson review
10.01.06
The War Against Cliché, by Martin Amis
A
Dan Schneider review

Evanescence, The Open Door
Claire Murray

Inka by Angela Vehorn
Gabriela Davies review

The Buddah and the Terrorist by Satish Kumar
Charlie Dickinson review
Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins
Dan Schneider review

Dead Father's Club by Matt Haig
A Lynn Ede review

Seconds Of Pleasure, by Neil Labute
Dan Schneider
Civilwarland In Bad Decline, by George Saunders
Dan Schnieder

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
by Mark Haddon
Liz Barlow review

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Dean Betts review
Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
A Jen Ames Review


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