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Posted at 16:34 on Friday 21 May, 2021 Winter’s Writing
Posted at 15:33 on Tuesday 30 March, 2021 How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (Books 2021, 4)
Posted at 11:29 on Friday 05 March, 2021 Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (Books 2021, 3)
Posted at 11:01 on Wednesday 23 December, 2020 The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Books 2020, 28)
Posted at 21:20 on Thursday 05 March, 2020 Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Books 2020, 3)
Posted at 11:31 on Monday 03 February, 2020 The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa (Books 2020, 2)
Posted at 20:16 on Thursday 09 January, 2020 The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa (Books 2020, 1)
Posted at 16:46 on Friday 27 December, 2019 Transition by Iain Banks (Books 2019, 25)
Posted at 14:33 on Friday 27 December, 2019 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Books 2019, 24)
Posted at 15:06 on Tuesday 17 December, 2019 The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain Banks (Books 2019, 23)
Posted at 21:39 on Saturday 23 November, 2019 The Book of Dust vol 2: The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (Books 2019, 22)
Posted at 11:25 on Tuesday 19 November, 2019 Kieron’s Comic, Brontë’s Book
Posted at 23:49 on Thursday 14 November, 2019 Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (Books 2019, 21)
Posted at 21:20 on Monday 11 November, 2019 Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (Books 2019, 18, 19 & 20)
Posted at 23:56 on Sunday 27 October, 2019 On Pausing Stories
Posted at 19:02 on Wednesday 23 October, 2019 Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence by Michael Marshall Smith (Books 2019, 17)
Posted at 11:59 on Wednesday 23 October, 2019 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (Books 2019, 16)
Posted at 23:27 on Sunday 06 October, 2019 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Books 2019, 15)
Posted at 23:07 on Wednesday 25 September, 2019 The Seventh Function of Language, by Laurent Binet, Translated by Sam Taylor (Books 2019, 14)
Posted at 23:23 on Wednesday 21 August, 2019 The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Books 2019, 13)
Posted at 19:32 on Sunday 11 August, 2019 The 392 by Ashley Hickson-Lovence (Books 2019, 12)
Posted at 20:39 on Tuesday 30 July, 2019 What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (Books 2019, 11)
Posted at 14:49 on Sunday 21 July, 2019 Milkman by Anna Burns (Books 2019, 10)
Posted at 22:51 on Monday 15 July, 2019 Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Books 2019, 9)
Posted at 14:12 on Sunday 14 July, 2019 Touch by Claire North (Books 2019, 8)
Posted at 14:57 on Wednesday 10 July, 2019 In Dreams: A Unified Interpretation of Twin Peaks & Other Selected Works of David Lynch, by H Perry Horton (Books 2019, 7)
Posted at 19:52 on Tuesday 21 May, 2019 Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (Books 2019, 6)
Posted at 23:56 on Monday 20 May, 2019 Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Cassady (Books 2019, 5)
Posted at 23:00 on Friday 01 March, 2019 The Beats: a Very Short Introduction (Books 2019, 4)
Posted at 23:50 on Monday 25 February, 2019 England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, by Jon Savage (Books 2019, 3)
Posted at 19:56 on Friday 01 February, 2019 We Are The Clash by Mark Andersen and Ralph Heibutzki (Books 2019, 2)
Posted at 00:19 on Tuesday 15 January, 2019 Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (Books 2019, 1)
Posted at 22:09 on Monday 31 December, 2018 Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda (Books 2018, 31)
Posted at 17:46 on Saturday 29 December, 2018 Stormwatch by Warren Ellis, Tom Raney and Bryan Hitch (Books 2018, 30)
Posted at 17:28 on Saturday 29 December, 2018 The Drifters by James A Michener (Books 2018, 29)
Posted at 20:49 on Friday 26 October, 2018 Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (Books 2018, 28)
Posted at 22:46 on Wednesday 10 October, 2018 Promethea by Alan Moore, JH Williams III, Mick Gray & Todd Klein (Books 2018, 27)
Posted at 22:33 on Thursday 04 October, 2018 Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (Books 2018, 26)
Posted at 23:54 on Tuesday 02 October, 2018 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Books 2018, 25)
Posted at 00:22 on Saturday 08 September, 2018 This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan (Books 2018, 24)
Posted at 19:35 on Thursday 16 August, 2018 Gilded Cage, Tarnished City, and Bright Ruin by Vic James (Books 2018, 21, 22, 23)
Posted at 18:11 on Monday 13 August, 2018 Dreams Before the Start of Time, by Anne Charnock (Books 2018, 20)
Posted at 00:26 on Sunday 12 August, 2018 The Algebraist, by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 19)
Posted at 17:50 on Wednesday 01 August, 2018 Walking on Glass by Iain Banks (Books 2018, 18)
Posted at 00:32 on Friday 20 July, 2018 The Great Banksie Reread
Posted at 23:57 on Tuesday 17 July, 2018 The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (Books 2018, 17)
Posted at 00:20 on Wednesday 04 July, 2018 Matter by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 16)
Posted at 16:16 on Sunday 24 June, 2018 Inversions by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 15)
Posted at 23:02 on Thursday 21 June, 2018 Espedair Street by Iain Banks (Books 2018, 14)
Posted at 19:45 on Sunday 17 June, 2018 Against A Dark Background by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 13)
Posted at 23:05 on Tuesday 15 May, 2018 Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (Books 2018, 11)
Posted at 21:12 on Wednesday 18 April, 2018 Bizarre Romance by Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell (Books 2018, 9)
Posted at 22:41 on Thursday 12 April, 2018 Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (Books 2018, 8)
Posted at 22:29 on Tuesday 10 April, 2018 The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2018, 7)
Posted at 22:20 on Tuesday 10 April, 2018 The Audrey and Eddie Show
Posted at 20:33 on Saturday 17 March, 2018 2023: A Trilogy by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (Books 2018, 6) 📚🎵
Posted at 18:04 on Tuesday 27 February, 2018 Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost (Books 2018, 5)
Posted at 20:42 on Sunday 25 February, 2018 Sourdough by Robin Sloan (Books 2018, 4)
Posted at 17:28 on Tuesday 30 January, 2018 I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon (Books 2018, 2) 📚🎵
Posted at 22:04 on Monday 22 January, 2018 Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Books 2018, 1)
Posted at 22:10 on Wednesday 22 November, 2017 Jerusalem by Alan Moore (Books 2017, 5)
Posted at 22:04 on Friday 01 September, 2017 Universal Harvester by John Darnielle (Books 2017, 4)
Posted at 00:49 on Thursday 13 April, 2017 BSFA Awards 2016 by Various (Books 2017, 3)
Posted at 00:36 on Sunday 19 March, 2017 Reading Materials
Posted at 23:51 on Thursday 02 March, 2017 Footnotes Revisited
Posted at 23:57 on Wednesday 01 March, 2017 Under the Television Skies
Posted at 21:13 on Wednesday 15 February, 2017 All the Things in the World
Posted at 07:09 on Tuesday 20 December, 2016 Complicity and The Business by Iain Banks (Books 2016 16 & 17)
Posted at 14:32 on Saturday 26 November, 2016 Again, Again
Posted at 17:56 on Sunday 20 November, 2016 Screwjack by Hunter S Thompson (Books 2016, 15)
Posted at 00:15 on Wednesday 14 September, 2016 Reamde By Neal Stephenson (Books 2016, 13)
Posted at 23:27 on Tuesday 06 September, 2016 The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman and others (Books 2016, 12)
Posted at 01:01 on Monday 29 August, 2016 Normal by Warren Ellis (Books 2016, 11)
Posted at 18:18 on Thursday 25 August, 2016 Sally Heathcote, Suffragette by Mary M Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot (Books 2016, 10)
Posted at 01:45 on Thursday 14 July, 2016 All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (Books 2016, 9)
Posted at 23:12 on Sunday 19 June, 2016 The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross (Books 2016, 8)
Posted at 18:04 on Thursday 16 June, 2016 Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell (Books 2016, 7
Posted at 23:06 on Tuesday 07 June, 2016 The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi (Books 2016, 6)
Posted at 00:18 on Wednesday 13 April, 2016 Patience by Daniel Clowes (Books 2016, 5)
Posted at 23:43 on Wednesday 06 April, 2016 Patience
Posted at 00:16 on Sunday 03 April, 2016 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip K Dick (Books 2016, 2)
Posted at 23:39 on Saturday 02 April, 2016 Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories, by China Miéville (Books 2016, 1)
Posted at 23:48 on Wednesday 04 November, 2015 Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (Books 2015, 10)
Posted at 18:51 on Tuesday 06 October, 2015 The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Translated by Ken Liu (Books 2015, 9)
Posted at 11:58 on Tuesday 08 September, 2015 Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel (Books 2015, 8)
Posted at 00:47 on Tuesday 18 August, 2015 Mind of My Mind by Octavia E Butler (Books 2015, 7)
Posted at 16:04 on Thursday 25 June, 2015 Wild Seed by Octavia E Butler (books, 2015, 5)
Posted at 08:30 on Thursday 30 April, 2015 Neither tempestuous nor particularly challenging
Posted at 08:27 on Tuesday 31 March, 2015 Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal (Books 2015, 4)
Posted at 00:43 on Sunday 22 March, 2015 Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson (books 2015, 3)
Posted at 00:24 on Friday 06 March, 2015 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (Books 2015, 2)
Posted at 00:19 on Thursday 12 February, 2015 The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (Books 2015, 1)
Posted at 20:58 on Monday 19 January, 2015 Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. by Viv Albertine (Books 2014, 20)
Posted at 21:54 on Wednesday 14 January, 2015 The Schrödinger’s Cat trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2014, 19)
Posted at 21:45 on Wednesday 14 January, 2015 Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey (Books 2014, 18)
Posted at 00:01 on Monday 05 January, 2015 The Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2014, 17)
Posted at 22:25 on Monday 22 December, 2014 The Circle by Dave Eggers (Books 2014, 16)
Posted at 20:12 on Tuesday 02 December, 2014 Sir Gawain and the Green Night translated by Bernard O’Donoghue (Books 2014, 15)
Posted at 01:21 on Wednesday 26 November, 2014 Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale: the Final Chapter by Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook (Books 2014, 14)
Posted at 23:32 on Tuesday 25 November, 2014 Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Books 2014, 13)
Posted at 08:11 on Thursday 20 November, 2014 Dotter of her Father’s Eyes by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot (Books 2014, 12)
Posted at 12:43 on Saturday 08 November, 2014 On Writing by AL Kennedy (Books 2014, 11)
Posted at 22:24 on Thursday 23 October, 2014 The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (books, 2014, 10)
Posted at 00:36 on Thursday 23 October, 2014 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon (Books 2014, 9)
Posted at 19:31 on Sunday 12 October, 2014 The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell (Books 2014, 8)
Posted at 15:08 on Wednesday 20 August, 2014 The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson (Books 2014, 7)
Posted at 00:57 on Tuesday 22 July, 2014 Pavane by Keith Roberts (Books, 2014, 6)
Posted at 23:14 on Monday 21 July, 2014 Not-Exactly-Books, 2014, 5: What Has Gone Wrong With Short Stories?
Posted at 22:21 on Monday 14 April, 2014 The State of Me, by Nasim Marie Jafry (Books 2014, 4)
Posted at 08:39 on Friday 11 April, 2014 Secret Diaries
Posted at 23:33 on Wednesday 26 March, 2014 The First Three Books of the Year
Posted at 23:50 on Tuesday 11 March, 2014 Another Lost Month, and Unpublished Posts
Posted at 20:14 on Wednesday 16 October, 2013 The Summer of Rereading, 2: A Culture of Marvel and Miracles
Posted at 12:57 on Wednesday 16 October, 2013 The Summer of Rereading, 3: More Culture
Posted at 17:25 on Saturday 21 September, 2013 The Summer of Rereading 1: The Magus, by John Fowles
Posted at 00:02 on Saturday 14 September, 2013 Cultural Times
Posted at 00:58 on Monday 17 June, 2013 Forgot the Cry of Gulls
Posted at 00:15 on Tuesday 21 May, 2013 The Third-Person Sanctimonious
Posted at 13:03 on Friday 30 March, 2012 A Drop of the Hard Stuff
Posted at 01:17 on Thursday 28 April, 2011 Moxyland, by Lauren Beukes
Posted at 00:14 on Wednesday 08 September, 2010 Summer Reading 2010
Posted at 17:17 on Saturday 30 January, 2010 Next-Door to a Sequel
Posted at 01:11 on Saturday 12 September, 2009 Transitions in Real Life?
Posted at 13:37 on Thursday 19 February, 2009 Masks of the Illuminati, by Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2008, 21)
Posted at 12:59 on Thursday 19 February, 2009 Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Books 2008, 20)
Posted at 11:58 on Thursday 19 February, 2009 The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson (books 2008, 19)
Posted at 11:47 on Thursday 19 February, 2009 Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson (Books 2008, 18)
Posted at 11:44 on Thursday 19 February, 2009 Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street, by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson (Books 2008, 17)
Posted at 22:03 on Wednesday 14 January, 2009 Adverbs, by Daniel Handler (Books 2008, 16)
Posted at 23:23 on Wednesday 07 January, 2009 American Flagg episodes 1-30 (and special 1), by Howard Chaykin and others (Books 2008, 15)
Posted at 22:58 on Wednesday 07 January, 2009 Halting State, by Charles Stross (Books 2008, 13)
Posted at 01:35 on Sunday 04 January, 2009 Lazarus Churchyard: The Final Cut, by Warren Ellis and D’Israeli (Books 2008, 14)
Posted at 01:24 on Sunday 04 January, 2009 Veniss Underground, by Jeff Vandermeer (Books 2008, 12)
Posted at 21:38 on Monday 13 October, 2008 ThiGMOO, by Eugene Byrne (Books 2008, 11)
Posted at 22:53 on Tuesday 26 August, 2008 A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket (Books, 2008, 10)
Posted at 17:26 on Friday 20 June, 2008 A Dream of Wessex, by Christopher Priest (Books 2008, 9)
Posted at 21:08 on Tuesday 17 June, 2008 The Space Machine, by Christopher Priest (Books 2008, 8)
Posted at 21:42 on Sunday 08 June, 2008 Newton’s Wake: A Space Opera, by Ken Macleod (books 2008, 7)
Posted at 20:24 on Thursday 05 June, 2008 Identity and letdown in The Raw Shark Texts, by Steven Hall (books 2008, 6)
Posted at 23:12 on Sunday 01 June, 2008 The Einstein Intersection, by Samuel R Delany (Books 2008, 5)
Posted at 11:46 on Monday 05 May, 2008 British Summer Time, by Paul Cornell (Books 2008, 4)
Posted at 17:47 on Thursday 03 April, 2008 Old Man’s War, by John Scalzi (Books 2008, 3)
Posted at 16:22 on Sunday 16 March, 2008 The Hidden Family, by Charles Stross (Books 2008, 2)
Posted at 21:24 on Monday 25 February, 2008 Matter, by Iain M Banks (Books 2008, 1)
Posted at 11:05 on Wednesday 19 December, 2007 Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis (Books 2007, 7)
Posted at 23:23 on Monday 12 November, 2007 The Scar, by China Miéville (Books 2007, 6)
Posted at 13:16 on Tuesday 25 September, 2007 The Prestige, by Christopher Priest (Books 2007, 5)
Posted at 13:37 on Thursday 20 September, 2007 The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain Banks (Books 2007, 4)
Posted at 14:12 on Saturday 01 September, 2007 Ink, by Hal Duncan (Books 2007, 3)
Posted at 12:16 on Friday 10 August, 2007 Twenty Years of Foolin’ and They Put You in the Pub
Posted at 22:39 on Thursday 19 July, 2007 We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver (Books 2007, 2)
Posted at 17:54 on Friday 13 July, 2007 Potter Week
Posted at 23:36 on Friday 15 June, 2007 Redemption Song: the Definitive Biography of Joe Strummer, by Chris Salewicz (Books 2007, 1)
Posted at 12:53 on Thursday 14 June, 2007 The Last of the 2006 “Book Notes” Posts
Posted at 07:53 on Thursday 12 April, 2007 Book Notes 25: The Family Trade, by Charles Stross
Posted at 13:17 on Friday 16 March, 2007 Straight to Elgin Avenue
Posted at 00:04 on Sunday 25 February, 2007 The Steep Approach to Literary Acceptance
Posted at 03:40 on Saturday 03 February, 2007 A Deadline Crash, and a Reading
Posted at 22:41 on Sunday 21 January, 2007 Book Notes 23: Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson
Posted at 14:07 on Friday 12 January, 2007 Dead Zen Master
Posted at 14:00 on Wednesday 10 January, 2007 Book Notes 22: The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, by Neil Gaiman and Yoshika Amano
Posted at 14:55 on Thursday 21 December, 2006 Book Notes 20: The Complete Ballad of Halo Jones by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson
Posted at 14:31 on Wednesday 20 December, 2006 Book Notes 19: Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales, by Alan Moore, Steve Moore, and others
Posted at 13:02 on Tuesday 19 December, 2006 Book Notes 18: Radio Free Albemuth, by Philip K Dick
Posted at 23:07 on Monday 11 December, 2006 Book Notes 17: Vellum, by Hal Duncan
Posted at 14:26 on Wednesday 06 December, 2006 Book Notes 16: The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle, by Catherine Webb
Posted at 13:53 on Tuesday 07 November, 2006 Book Notes 15: Appleseed, by John Clute
Posted at 17:43 on Wednesday 01 November, 2006 Book Notes 14: Viriconium, by M John Harrison
Posted at 13:26 on Thursday 21 September, 2006 Book Notes 13: Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, by JK Rowling
Posted at 23:09 on Wednesday 09 August, 2006 Book Notes 12: The Last Temptation, by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli
Posted at 15:59 on Tuesday 08 August, 2006 Book Notes 11: The Originals, by Dave Gibbons
Posted at 17:18 on Wednesday 02 August, 2006 Book Notes 10: Skizz, by Alan Moore and Jim Baikie
Posted at 00:44 on Tuesday 01 August, 2006 Book notes 9: Redemolished, by Alfred Bester
Posted at 00:28 on Tuesday 01 August, 2006 Book notes 8: The Complete DR and Quinch, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Posted at 23:35 on Sunday 25 June, 2006 Book Notes 7: Nova Scotia, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J Wilson
Posted at 23:18 on Monday 27 March, 2006 Stanslaw Lem
Posted at 21:14 on Monday 27 March, 2006 Book Notes 6: Saturday by Ian McEwan
Posted at 13:10 on Friday 24 March, 2006 Reading matters