8- GERMAN LONGSWORD STUDY GUIDE by Keith Farrell and Alex Bourdas ( Read more... )

I actually intended to read The Mysterious Affair At Styles because it was published 100 years ago come October, but it turned out the earliest Poirot novel on my shelves is this second one, from 1923 ( Read more... )

This is a novelisation of the sandbox survival horror zombie videogame. It’s a fun and fast-paced tie-in that speeds through a few highlight set-pieces from the game, thugh in a very curtailed fashion - and with a few differences. The aren’t the various different types of zombies that there are in the game, and none of the human soldiers either, ( Read more... )

A 2013 reprint of the Judge Child Quest from 2000AD’s Judge Dredd, in this case in an A3 sized paperback, in which the reprinted comics pages take up about the middle two-thirds of the A3 book page - which means it’s about at the limit for my eyes to read without a magnifier ( Read more... )

A fun romp through the bizarre stories presented as fact - though doubtless some are more factual than many others - in Victorian newspapers, curated by Clay. The reports, spanning the length of Vicky’sreign, are short, and grouped into chapters of various subjects - animals, politics, crime, marriage, the supernatural, etc. They’re all nice and ( Read more... )

I never really knew the movie was based on a novel until I found it in a charity shop. It’s an intriguing mix, characterisation with a sort of Old West travelogue feel, and yet it works. The timescale varies in different sections of the book, being set over periods of hours in some chapters, then skipping through months in others, but all in a way ( Read more... )

A gathering of his review columns from the mid Noughties, and a bit of a mixture. Broadly we clearly share similar opinions on TV, and a dim view of the masses who lap up lowest-common-denominator stuff, so I found myself nodding at a lot of his criticisms of reality tat, and glad to see his positive stuff about the likes of Dr Who - and even to be ( Read more... )

1) - LEARNED OPTIMISM by Martin EP Seligman ( Read more... )

11) FOREVER AND A DAY by Anthony Horowitz ( Read more... )

10) NIGHT OF THE HUMANS by David Llewellyn ( Read more... )