Musician, occasional writer, civil and digital liberties activist, trans-dimensional etymologist, surrealist sportsman, dangling participle.
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‘The red soil and the long, wooded hills… the twisted houses with old bones of …
Starting off like a slightly dark version of Vicar of Dibley, but I've enjoyed what I've read of Rickman's other works, so I'm willing to give it a go. Also, I'm in the market for a bit of low-commitment entertainment right at the moment.
‘The red soil and the long, wooded hills… the twisted houses with old bones of blackened oak. And the apples. …
Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through.
“Cancel” or “call-out” culture is a …
WINNER OF: The Arthur C. Clarke Award - The Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award - The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award …
This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. …
Gyffe, the Fribbling Squit's Black Book makes its appearance just as the defeated Owain Glyndŵr finally gives up the ghost …
This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey …
Struggling through - having a difficult time putting myself in the mindset of a moody teenager. I'm trying to keep in mind that in 1976 all of the modern goth vampire tropes didn't exist. On the other hand, I haven't given up, since some aspects of it are better than I remembered.
"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her …
A radical manifesto for how to deal with environmental breakdown
In the age of environmental breakdown, breakdown, the political status …
This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey …
As the saying goes: "don't revisit a book you read & loved back when you were a teenage goth". Or not. Thus far, I'm amazed at how all-over-the-place the prose is. It's either bad, or more experimental than I remember it. Knowing now that it was written in response, or at least influenced by, the death of Rice's daughter, I'm finding it more nuanced than when I first read it. We shall see.
This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. …
1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her …
Simultaneously the fairytale of a girl and her father living alone in an isolated cottage in the woods, and a tragedy of abduction and mental illness. Written primarily from the perspective of the young girl, the quality of the prose captures the developing awareness of the narrator’s situation very well. The pacing and narrative structure was a little… fluid shall we say, which I wouldn’t necessarily say is a negative thing, considering the nature of the narrator and the subject matter. A great debut, I’m looking forward to reading her subsequent novels.
1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway …
An exquisite examination of a sexual culture in crisis
What if we took sex out of the box marked 'special', …
Fifteen years have passed since the devastating war between the Galt Empire and the cities …