Here are links to recent book reviews I’ve published on this website. Look out for more soon.

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Oct 8, 2024

As indicated by the title, the first thing to know about this anthology is that it comprises both poetry and prose, rather than one or the other. Many of the pieces are quite unusual...

Oct 8, 2024

Compare and contrast: Nuts and bolts

Oct 8, 2024

It's rather disconcerting when one considers that buildings like The Shard are essentially held together by nuts, bolts and washers.

Oct 8, 2024

Compare and contrast: Love Triangle

Oct 8, 2024

Like, I suspect, many people, I have never knowingly come across an isosceles triangle in my life, and wouldn’t know what to do with it if I did. However...

Oct 8, 2024

Sep 20, 2024

Review: Waterhouse on newspaper style

Sep 20, 2024

This book may be thirty years old, but its advice is still pertinent. If you want to have a blitz or crackdown against, or shake-up of, bad writing (all examples of 'tabloidese'), then this is the book for you.

Sep 20, 2024