Author pic – Michael Moorcock
This certainly rambles between autobiography and adventure. Three main stories intertwine and eventually intersect, shifting perspectives from paragraph to paragraph, even sentence to sentence, and almost always without a section break of white space.
The …
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Written in iambic pentameter verse, Emily Wilson’s book is a lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop”, bringing an ancient epic to new life. Or is it?
I found it a delight to read with a style that’s appealing…
There’s none better than Stephen Fry for a retelling of a Greek myth in a relatable and very funny book. You can always count on him for that. Still, one way or another, Homer’s great poems have remained news that …
From what I’ve garnered reading his books, Michael Moorcock never saw a boundary he didn’t want to cross, blur or dispense with altogether. So it stands to reason that having played around with notions of time, space and genre, …
I recall references made about this book as ‘an opulent mythology for those without a pot to piss in’ to ‘the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth, poverty and our threadbare millennium’.
Sometimes the …
“They said you were a murdering bushranger!”
The flaming accusation is but one surprise amongst many in this wonderfully perplexing story. Its the winter of 2049 and Daniel is elderly and long isolated. After yet another devastating storm, this time …
There’s a lot of strange beings with strange names and stranger powers in this exciting read….Monolulu, Commotion, Venables, Ironfoot to name some. Much of this novel takes place in another London, a fantastic and terrifyingly different city with locations …
Author pic : Lauren Williams
Throw in a physically and psychologically abusive husband, the honourable Harry Somerton, and then add to that a narrative that is witty, clever, dark and heartbreaking, plus then add, even cosy, even if your ‘cosy’ …
There’s something much to devour, dissect, savour and imbibe and yet, ponder about accepting clinging. The theory goes something like this: cut through your conceptualisation and labels and see the raw experience devoid of the clinging. But is there such …