Book Reviews Trackman hits all the right notes I love this book. I may as well declare this from the outset. It is just brilliant – funny, moving, insightful, and poignant to the…pcuddihy27th March 2020
Booker Prize Reviews SOMETHING TO ANSWER FOR by P.H. Newby Something To Answer For is a strange and unusual book with a confusing narrative – or maybe that’s just a confusing narrator – which makes…pcuddihy19th December 2019
Podcasts Chris Dolan – Podcast Chris Dolan is a man of many writing talents. He has written several novels, including the first two books in a crime series featuring Glasgow…pcuddihy18th December 2019
Blog Booker Prize Winner 1: Something To Answer For by PH Newby The first ever winner of the Booker Prize Award. Since the Booker Prize began in 1969, a total of 55 novels have won the prestigious…pcuddihy14th November 2019
Book Reviews Kane and Abel… I was able to finish it, now I’m caning it I feel like this a confessional rather than a review… Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I have read a Jeffrey Archer novel. The…pcuddihy17th October 2019
Book Reviews The Secret Life Of Books… it’s so much more than just words I am a sucker for books about books, so much so that I once wrote one myself, charting my year of trying to fall in…pcuddihy10th October 2019
Book Reviews Ducks, Newburyport… a 1,000-page masterpiece Can I do justice to a 1,000-page, one-sentence novel in a short review over a few paragraphs?... Of course I can’t, but I’ll try and…pcuddihy7th October 2019
Book Reviews Positive verdict on The Wolf Trial The Wolf Trial is billed as ‘Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose meets Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho in a brilliant historical epic’. To…pcuddihy13th April 2016
Blog A Curmudgeon Writes … Your dreams are my nightmares Whenever someone says to me, ‘Wait ‘til I tell you about the dream I had last night,’ my heart sinks. It really does. I can…pcuddihy26th December 2015
Blog A Curmudgeon Writes… apostrophe catastrophes and other grammatical sins It almost feels like a prerequisite for being a curmudgeon to rail against text-speak, emojis, emails and all other forms of modern communication which are,…pcuddihy17th December 2015