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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Curmudgeon: An ill-tempered (and frequently old) person full of stubborn ideas or opinions. So I’m just a few months away from turning 50. It doesn’t…
pcuddihy7th December 2015
Duran Duran, Paper Gods Tour 2015, SSE Hydro, Glasgow, Sunday, December 6, 2015 I should explain from the outset that I usually like a seat whenever I go…
pcuddihy7th December 2015