From the late-70s to the mid-80s, the madcap cartoons of Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett were an integral part of almost every title published by Marvel UK. One of their most fondly remembered strips was Doctor Who? which ran in … Continue reading ‘Who’s 60? A Celebration of Whos’ by Tim Quinn & Dicky Howett: Review
The problem with reviewing things on a strictly amateur basis is that it’s often very hard to be impartial. The things that I review are chosen by me and as such, are more often than not, things that I’m attracted … Continue reading ‘Fingers Crossed’ by Miki Berenyi: Review
Warning: Contains Minor Spoilers. There may be some people out there who, unfamiliar with Christopher Priest’s body of work, read his previous novel, 9/11 set An American Story and thought that The Evidence was something based around conspiracy theories. It … Continue reading ‘The Evidence’ by Christopher Priest: Review
Chunky in-depth books about the making of a movie are something of a rarity these days and when they do appear, it’s usually as a lavishly-illustrated coffee table book that you have to mortgage your house to afford. The days … Continue reading ‘Blood, Sweat & Chrome – The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road’ by Kyle Buchanan: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! It’s pretty well known that Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp is the book upon which the film Die Hard (1988) is based, but even if you were blissfully unaware of that fact, it’s plastered all over … Continue reading ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ by Roderick Thorp: Review
I’ll be honest here; I’m not a great reader of Stephen King’s books. Not because I‘ve anything against them, quite the opposite; the ones I’ve read, I’ve really enjoyed. He just has so many books and I like to spread myself pretty thinly as a reader. Having said that, from what I have read of his, I can fully see why he is regarded as the world’s greatest horror author. A lot of writers think that horror is all about blood and violence and the visceral human fear of being hunted and killed, but Stephen King realises that all of … Continue reading ‘Later’ by Stephen King: Review
These celebrity Doctor Who novels are interesting. Sure, we all know that they are written with the assistance of an established novelist (in this case Jac Rayner) but you can always feel something of the performer coming through in the … Continue reading ‘Doctor Who – The Ruby’s Curse’ by Alex Kingston: Review
An American Story is a novel that revolves around the events of 9/11, but it is explicitly not a novel about conspiracy theories. Christopher Priest goes to great lengths to have his protagonist express his disdain for conspiracy theories and … Continue reading ‘An American Story’ by Christopher Priest: Review
In my early teens, I became obsessed by The Goon Show; the anarchic radio comedy of the 1950s starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Seacombe that bewitched my parents’ generation and influenced artists as diverse as Monty Python’s Flying … Continue reading ‘The Goon Cartoons’ by Spike Milligan and Pete Clarke
Script books are a curious beast; neither prose nor reference work, yet somehow a little bit of both. When badly written, they can come across like the transcription of a board meeting and make for very dull reading indeed. This … Continue reading ‘Inside No.9 – The Scripts Series 1-3’ by Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith: Review
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