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In my irregular themed look at old posts (previous posts here), this time I’ve picked novels where the author becomes part of the story – true metafiction – and I got AI to do me an illustration of a typewriter churning out a New York cityscape, which leads me to my first pic...

Firstly though, I’ve also been at Shiny New Books last week with my review of Flame Tree Publishing’s short story anthology Best Served Cold from th...

Does a pamphlet count as a book? Well, given that I’ve read 17 of my 20 books and I’m well on course to finish the 20 and more, why not! However, I will bracket these two Faber signed limited edition pamphlets by Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, together as one!

Queenhood was written to celebrate Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee – seventy ...

I’ve now read 17/20 and am rather behind on my reviews, but here’s the next one for you…

The second of my Barker Books reads this summer is her debut novel from 1994. This was a re-read for me and all I could remember was that there’s a greyhound in it – but the co...

I’m currently dipping into Tomine’s 2024 book, Q&A, in which he answers questions posed to him sent to his publishers about his life, his career, his techniques, the business of cartooning and more. The very first question is how do pronouce your family name? (He is Japanese-American) – I now know it’s ‘Toh-mee-neh’ if you’re Japanese, but California-born Adrian ...