Some highlights from my recent watching for you… The Death of Bunny Munro I’ve not read Nick Cave’s novel, but he was involved in its adaptation (on NOW/Sky Atlantic), and he turns up in the last episode of this absolutely superb short series. Matt Smith plays the titular Bunny, a philandering travelling cosmetics salesman, who Read More
Month: February 2026
Sharks by Simone Buchholz – blogtour
Translated by Rachel Ward A new Chastity Riley book is always welcome. She is the most brilliant character – a police prosecutor in Hamburg. She is smart, sassy as they come, earthy and no-nonsense, but prone to dodgy romances, and she also gets far too involved in her cases for a prosecutor really. She works Read More
An excellent memoir and a DNF novel – Dyer & Fruttero/Lucentini
A review of my first non-fiction read of the year, an excellent memoir and my first DNF of a novel I so wanted to love…. Homework by Geoff Dyer Dyer is one of those eclectic authors who turns his hand to many forms – be it fiction or non-fiction. I remember enjoying his novelistic biographical Read More
Kindred by Octavia Butler – Galley Beggar Critical Reading Class #2
It was our second session at the Galley Beggars Critical Reading Class moving from contemporary Belfast in Wendy Erskine’s The Benefactors to a modern classic of timeslip fiction, Kindred by Octavia Butler. We started off with Chief Galley Beggar Sam Jordison giving us some biographical background on Butler and about the drafting of the novel Read More
David Bowie: The Artist, The Albums, The Music by Philippe Margotin
Translated by Claire Alejo Being ten years since David Bowie died, his legacy lives on, and given the anniversary a number of new books about the man and his music have been published. Philippe Margotin is a French music author, and has written numerous books about a variety of artists and their music, including U2, Read More
The Vipers by Katy Hays
This was our Flora & Fauna ‘V’ book for Book Group discussion last month. It’s the story of a rich American family, the Lingates, who return to holiday at the same villa on the Italian island of Capri off the Sorrento peninsula every year. This is in spite of the tragedy that happened back in Read More
Six Degrees of Separation: Flashlight by Susan Choi
It’s time for the super monthly tag Six Degrees of Separation, which is hosted by Kate at Booksaremyfavouriteandbest, Six Degrees of Separation #6degrees picks a starting book for participants to go wherever it takes them in six more steps. Links to my reviews are in the titles of the books chosen. The starter book this month is: Flashlight Read More
What I was reading 10 years ago – in February 2016
This is the first in a new series of archive posts in which I look back at my reading lists to pick a few highlights from a particular time. Links lead to my original posts as appropriate. February 2016 was notable for a trip down to London for one of literary agency PFD’s salons at Read More
The Cut Up by Louise Welsh – blog tour
A new book by Louise Welsh is always a must read – she’s possibly my favourite living Scottish author. The Cut Up is her third crime novel to feature Rilke, valuer for Bowery Auctions in Glasgow. The first Rilke novel, Welsh’s debut, The Cutting Room from 2002 was superb, followed by The Second Cut some Read More
