Archive
Archive for May, 2012
Book reviews
Since I graduated with an MA in Creative Writing in 2011, I’ve been occasionally reviewing books. They are posted here.
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Book Reviews
- Review of ‘Night Film’ by Marisha Pessl
- Review of Solo, by William Boyd
- Review of ‘The Aftermath’ by Rhidian Brook
- Review of ‘Beautiful Ruins’ by Jess Walter
- ‘Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off The Most Audacious Rescue in History’ & ‘Argo’
- Holiday Reading
- Review of ‘New Finnish Grammar’ by Diego Marani
- Review of ‘The Prague Cemetery’ by Umberto Eco
- Review of ‘The Phoenix Song’ by John Sinclair
- Review of ‘Telegraph Avenue’ by Michael Chabon
- Review of ‘The Cutting Season’ by Attica Locke
- Review of ‘A Possible Life’ by Sebastian Faulks
- Review of ‘Sweet Tooth’ by Ian McEwan
- Review of ‘The Next Best Thing’ by Jennifer Weiner
- The Rules from Kirsten McDougall
- Review of ‘The Invisible Rider’ by Kirsten McDougall
- Emma McCleary’s review of ‘Life: An exploded diagram’ by Mal Peet
- Review of ‘Stonemouth’ by Iain Banks
- Review of ‘The Big Music’ by Kirsty Gunn
- Review of ‘Velocity’ by Ajaz Ahmed and Stefan Olander
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Blogroll
- Beattie's book blog Bookman Beattie’s famous blog
- Daily Lit All things literature
- GoodReads My profile on GoodReads
- Green Light Noel Murphy’s blog (he’s a fan of Gatsby)
- Helen Heath Helen Heath’s blog
- Vic Books
- We Love Books The Booksellers New Zealand blog
Categories
- A Possible Life
- Ali Smith
- Antonio Mendez
- Aorewa McLeod
- Argo
- Attica Locke
- Beautiful Ruins
- Ben Affleck
- Business
- Chick LIt
- Crime
- Damien Wilkins
- Diego Marani
- Fiction
- Iain Banks
- Ian McEwan
- Jennifer Weiner
- Jess Walter
- John Sinclair
- Kirsten McDougall
- Kirsty Gunn
- Literary fiction
- Loitering with intent
- Mal Peet
- Marisha Pessl
- Matt Baglio
- Michael Chabon
- New Finnish Grammar
- Nicola Barker
- Night Film
- Non-fiction
- Peter O'Toole
- Rhidian Brook
- Sebastian Faulks
- Solo
- Sweet Tooth
- Telegraph Avenue
- The Aftermath
- The Cutting Season
- The Fainter
- The Invisible Rider
- The Next Best Thing
- The Phoenix Song
- The Prague Cemetery
- The Yips
- There but for the
- Umberto Eco
- Uncategorized
- Who was that woman anyway?
- William Boyd
