Category: Books

When finishing the first book of a trilogy, the urge to immediately pick up the next instalment is usually a good thing, but unfortunately, when reading the novels

I must confess, my knowledge of the Norse pantheon of Gods doesn’t stretch much beyond the basics. A smattering of knowledge picked up doing a primary 5 (that’s

You always get a lot of bang for your buck with anthologies. If you don’t like the story you’re reading it’s not long ‘til the next one comes

If there is a constant motif that runs through the work of Alastair Reynolds, it is one of decay, of an age running out, as in the melding

Is it only a fellow writer who, when reading a great novel, speculates how much was conceived in a flood of inspiration at the moment of conception, and

In history and literature, there have been divided cities. Berlin, split politically; Belfast, separated by religion; Minas Tirith and Minas Ithil, beacons of light in Gondor, one of

London is not only a city unknown to outsiders, it is unknown even to residents. Superficially reminiscent of his previous novel, The City And The City, in which