Category Archives: Books

D.E. McCluskey: The Boyfriend. Book Review.

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Horror may come in different guises, the simple fact that the most terrifying is that which comes close to home is what will scare you most.

You can read about mutant insects that make your skin scratch and itch as though they are running around in your body, you can feel the terror in the unexplained, the vampires, the ghouls, the psycho goblins, the spectres that float and the demons who will tear you limb from limb, but nothing comes close to the truth that fear is driven by the one that you invite into your home.

D.E. McCluskey: The Boyfriend. Book Review. full post

(495 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Gavin Baddeley And Paul Woods: Jack The Ripper – The Murders And The Myths. Book Review.

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It is perhaps telling of our modern approach to certain beguiling questions that a series of murders committed more than 130 years ago still finds ways to take hold of a conversation when other, arguably more pressing, concerns consistently become relegated to that of whimsy and fruitless explorations.

The consistency of new books and theories concerning Jack The Ripper and his insidious crimes has become its own cottage industry, and to find something novel, an original piece of thinking is its own reward when found.

Gavin Baddeley And Paul Woods: Jack The Ripper – The Murders And The Myths. Book Review. full post

(490 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

G R P Janes: I’ll Write A Book Of Poetry. Poetry Book Review.

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To see reason and clarity you must first break the chains that tie you down, which bind you to the prison others have created, and which you cannot envisage freedom. That which offers no escape is the greatest reason to keep fighting.

G R P Janes: I’ll Write A Book Of Poetry. Poetry Book Review. full post

(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

David Fisher: Doctor Who – The Androids Of Tara. Book Review.

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For a certain period of time, it seemed that you could not watch Doctor Who on a Saturday evening, the resolute fan favourite Tom Baker at the helm and controls of the Tardis, without the enormity of having the power of an android on screen, a servant, a slave, an all-powerful machine that would terrorise the thoughts and imagination of younger viewers and seasoned viewers alike.

David Fisher: Doctor Who – The Androids Of Tara. Book Review. full post

(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

James Patterson: Triple Cross. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Alex Cross, a man of many talents, brought to literary life by a writer with fingers in many pies. This is the life of one of the most open detectives on record, almost perfect in every detail, a loving home, a family who are the joy of his life, colleagues who respect him, a nation that seems to hold him in high esteem, heard of by all, and who will go to the ends of the Earth to bring murderers to justice, to account for their sins.

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(501 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii. Book Review.

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To imagine being part of a significant part of history is to recognise the problem with self-importance, we cannot help but play the hero, our ego insists we are placed at the revolution to either save lives or take them, we believe in these scenarios because we cannot understand how we would be a passive observer during chaos, change, and alteration.

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(540 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Liz Hedgecock: In Sherlock’s Shadow. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Every armchair detective lives In Sherlock’s Shadow, we might beat Morse to naming the murderer, we could expose the criminality and corruption quicker than Poirot, the insurmountable Miss Jane Marple, or the devilishly understated Columbo, but compared to Sherlock Holmes we live in cramped tiny houses that act as minds, we are hemmed in by our own conduct and appreciation of the darker forces that are involved in the underworld, the far reaching tentacles of crime that never ceases to be operational, that never sleeps in search of control.

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(537 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Liz Hedgecock: A House Of Mirrors. Book Review.

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To give life to a character is a privilege, to breathe existence into one who is so established by name alone is an honour, and so as all are aware of the existence and thoughts of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, so surely therefore must acknowledge that without Mrs Helen Hudson, the security of home, the quiet reassurance of stability in nature, both men might have led very different lives.

Liz Hedgecock: A House Of Mirrors. Book Review. full post

(611 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

D. E. McCluskey, Z: A Love Story. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Every generation has its way of dealing with the undead. Whether it comes in the form of political observation transformed into pop culture critique, or the fierce biting satire of purposeful declaration of war against a population willing to look the other way until the effect of wrong is found scratching at the door and the sound of rabid death is proclaimed up on what they see is their acre of space in the universe; each generation deals with the fall out of the horror that awaits in their own way.

D. E. McCluskey, Z: A Love Story. Book Review. full post

(603 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Legends Of Camelot. Book Review.

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British myth and legend has perhaps no finer example of powerful saga and hope than it does with the story of King Arthur and the Knights of Camelot; a fiction maybe, one certainly embellished and given an overall arc by Sir Thomas Mallory as he languished in prison with his days apparently numbered, but one that has stirred an immense wealth of material since, and been one of the causes of British resistance to outside forces since.

Doctor Who: Legends Of Camelot. Book Review. full post

(436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)