Tag Archives: Book Reviews

Release Date: 1 December 2014448 pages | Hardback Author: Jill LeporePublisher: Scribe Right from the start, it was no secret to DC’s editors that Wonder Woman was disconcertingly kinky; fan letters from bondage fetishists only confirmed it. No secret either that her creator, William Moulton Marston, meant her to be …

Shovel Ready book review . Noir thrillers never seem to go out of style – there’s something timeless about their bleak, fatalistic attitude, and they can be spliced successfully with almost any other genre. Shovel Ready uses this to its advantage, combining a noir attitude with near-future SF, resulting in …

Super Graphic book review . Subtitled A Visual Guide To The Comic Book Universe , this book is a delight – and you don’t have to be a comics fanatic to get something out of it. Each spread features graphs detailing either fictional or non-fictional scenarios, and the diversity and …

Jaunt: An Unofficial Guide To The Tomorrow People review. Seventies TV series The Tomorrow People may have been ITV’s answer to Doctor Who , but in the past four decades it’s won a fraction of the bookshelf space devoted to the Time Lord. This unofficial guide begins to rectify that, …

Monster by Dave Zeltserman book review . In this riff on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , we hear the eponymous entity’s story from his own perspective. Gentle Friedrich Hoffmann is set up by Victor Frankenstein for the murder of his beloved Johanna, waking as a set of memories inside the stitched-together …

Written by: C Allegra Hawksmoor, John Reppion and Dylan Fox Published by Vagrants Among Ruins • http://www.amongruins.org/?page_id=301 The future died nine years ago. Earth was deep in the grip of a Steampunk industrial revolution, steam trains writing themselves across the countryside as colossal aerostats drifted overhead. Fortunes were made, lives …

The City Of Silk And Steel book review. Husband and wife writing teams seem quite common now, but it’s rarer to see a husband, wife and daughter creating a book together. Mike Carey is famous as the author of the Felix Castor novels; Linda and Louise, though less well-known, are …

Caleb and Lenny have broken down on these roads. And the only thing that they hate more than that, the stifling heat, and the fact they have no food, is each other. J Daniel Sawyer’s novella opens in the sort of situation we’ve all been in from time to time. …

Doctor Who: The Nameless City by Michael Scott book review. The latest half-hour’s-reading Who ebook is a rather baffling mix of the Lovecraftian and the ludicrous. After Second Doctor companion Jamie is given a mysterious book which turns out to be the dreaded Necronomicon (yikes!), the TARDIS is hurled to …

As James Bond turns 50, he gets the ultimate photo album to mark the occasion. This comprehensive history of 007 and his exploits is just as lavish as the price tag suggests, and backs up hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes pictures and documents with exhaustive Making Ofs for every single Bond …