ALWYN TURNER reads an absurd but entertaining tale of Nigeria, London and, er, Atlantis. Continue reading
Category Archives: Books
Rear-view review: Train, Train
DAN ATKINSON on a novel from ‘the Other 1980s’. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Blackshirt
ALWYN TURNER on the long-running, if now largely forgotten, thriller hero Blackshirt. Continue reading
Before It Went Rotten
ALWYN TURNER reads about the pub rock of the 1970s. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
ALWYN TURNER on a 1940 Poirot novel that worries about the abuse of political power. Continue reading
The censoring of Sexton Blake
ALWYN TURNER wonders why he’s being protected from the prejudices of Edwardian pulp fiction. Continue reading
‘A sinister, if gifted buffoon’
SIMON MATTHEWS on Aleister Crowley – magician, poet and 73rd Greatest Briton. Continue reading
Rear-view review: London Dossier
DAN ATKINSON on a book of snapshots of Swinging London, from Guards bands to porn shops. Continue reading
More than snooker
SIMON MATTHEWS on the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, built when levelling up included experimental drama. Continue reading
Neither Nottingham nor Algeria
SIMON MATTHEWS on Britain’s most radical political novel. Continue reading
George Orwell and the Whirligig of Fame
ALWYN TURNER reviews books on Orwell by Dorian Lynskey and John Rodden – one of them good, the other very, very bad. Continue reading
Looking for a New England
From The Stud to Absolute Beginners, Simon Matthews’s new book rounds up music movies of the 1970s and ’80s. ALWYN TURNER has a read. Continue reading
