Well it worked for the last book… “That was effing brilliant! (Only I don’t say ‘effing’, do I?)” OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! [...]

At a ceremony in central London earlier tonight, poet Christopher Reid, beat off competition from Patrick Ness, Graham Farmelo, Raphael Selbourne and Colm Toibin etc to win the 2009 Costa Book Prize. The judges described A Scattering as “intensely moving, compelling and honest”. The collection of poetry, was written as a tribute to his late [...]

“That was an effing brilliant read.  Only I don’t say ‘effing’ do I?” Sorry you’re not going to get a synopsis with this one, no way, no how. The only way to go into this one is blind, folks. So I’m just going to talk about the experience of reading it. …Not that I could [...]

People, people, people, why didn’t you make me read this book earlier? What, you did, you say? Oh right, my bad then… Okay, okay, so I totally pinched my intro to this review from Chris’ review of the same book! But the sentiment stands! This is everything a book should be, great concept, even better [...]