Irvine Welsh and His Work: With twelve novels, four collections of short stories, and several screenplays, Irvine has consolidated his career as a writer. Known for his bookTrainspotting, Irvine Welsh has written other works likeThe Acid HouseandPorno, the Trainspotting's sequel. Irvine Welsh was...
The greatest – and coolest – detective of all time. Erudite, witty, charming… Holmes set the benchmark against which all other fictional (and some not-so fictional) detectives are measured. Across four novels and 56 short stories, Holmes used all his powers of logic and persuasion to crac...
Staying faithful to Irvine Welsh’s intense and graphic book wouldn’t have served the interests of film. So it’s to Danny Boyle’s credit that he brings alive Welsh’s ragtag collection of misfit dreamers, ferocious drunks and comedic chancers in an Edinburgh blighted by heroin addiction. ...
and Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich is an excellent entry point. Full of funny stories surrounding Frankenstein’s attempts to live a normal life, this picture book will leave you in stitches. Wait. Not literal stitches. Stitches from laughing. Anyway, moving on… ...
Gleeson has also edited The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland, which also won Best Irish Published Book at the Irish Book Awards in 2016. Her collection of essays, Constellations will be published in spring 2019 by Picador and he is currently wor...
One of my favourite writers, I wait eagerly for Thomas Teal to translate more of her atmospheric, wintery, stark novels and stories.More here… 4. Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (1932) – Julia Strachey The other Persephone title – short but hilarious and memorable – though this tale of...
she is at work on her twelfth novel in a career that’s spanned four decades. This fall sees the publication of her second collection of short stories, set several centuries on from the novels that earned her those Bookers. Her British publisher,Nicholas Pearson, said, “Where her last two...
Timmel Never at Home $18.00 (PBO; Collection; 7 works of short sf, 2 original to this volume) Durbin, Frederic The Star Shard $16.99 (Kids; 12-year-old Cymbril is a slave on a gigantic wagon city. The wagon's master purchases Loric, a new slave who is one of the magical Fey. ...
Posted by Justine Solomons on 3 December 2020, inNews Someone once told me, "It's not what a person is like that matters but what they like that matters." Since 1995 I've have written a list of every book I've read. In case you're wondering what I'm like/what I like, here's...
The nominees for Best First Novel by an American Author are RECENTLY RECEIVED AND FORTHCOMING SCIENCE FICTION Already Received Adams, John Joseph (ed) Brave New Worlds (Anthology; 33 dystopian sf stories). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15.99 Arnason, Eleanor A Woman of the Iron ...