Elegant sepia cover, intriguing title: Philo? Quartet? Ice Cold in … he’s a film-buff this former Bishop, isn’t he? But Holloway reveals that an unremarkable industrial town, within spitting distance of vast Loch Lomond, was...
First the health warnings: for readers who feel sensitive about strong language or shocking situations (though by modern standards neither very strong not very shocking) perhaps this collection of short stories will not be their...
Bravely Perriam probes the slippery topics of love and fear, fixation and disgust. Little Marvel, we find out, is a variety of green pea. Green peas bizarrely become the heroine’s phobia. We can smile, but...
John MacDonald Smith Evesham macsmith@bushinternet.com This book took effect instantly. By page 6 I had run the bath and for the next seven chapters or so was cosseted in the elegant bubbles of Neal’s Yard...
ISBN: 1905047169 reviews ‘You want to hug it,’ said one reader of this novel. Well for the first couple of chapters I wanted to strangle it. By the end, however, there was certainly much more...
Holiday reading: the freedom to get sand between the pages of my trashy pot-boiler (yes, I gave in and bought that one), gallop through some light-weight romp from Virago, then a serious effort from Coetze...
Some came fairly close to asserting that Jesus was an American. sof 70 March 2005 18 Alison McRobb reviews Honest to God: FortyYears On edited by Colin Slee SCM press. 2004. 288 pp. £16.99. ISBN...
