These are the lovely books that have arrived at NextReading Rooms. Excluding Stairway to Hell, only The Wisdom of Dead Men actually arrived by post. I’m blaming the postal strikes. Really frustrating as two copies of The Naming of the Beasts are disappeared into depot pile limbo!
I was lucky to get smuggled [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Serpent’s Tail’
Spotlight/New Additions: McGann, Carey, Palmer, McAuley, Harris, Williams
Update: What I'm juggling, I mean reading
Though it does feel a bit like juggling. I’ve been stupid and been dipping into several books that I’ve been meaning to get to for a while and one or two brand new ones.
This is a break in my usual routine of keeping two books going at the same time so that I can swap [...]
Release Round-Up: Missing from May and New to June, Mostly
I had a request for more summary posts on the blog rather than spreading promotional posts out of over the month. You might still see a few promotional posts this month either because I’ve only just heard about a book and it can’t wait until July or that I’ve forgotten about it and I want [...]
Review: The Semantics of Murder by Aifric Campbell (Serpent’s Tail)
The Semantics of Murder by Aifric Campbell
Published by Serpent’s Tail and Out Now
Some stories are linear with a beginning, middle and end. And then there are some stories that start near the end and look backwards. The Semantics of Murder looks backwards and as it does it pulls away the layers that make up psychoanalyst [...]
Debut Review: The Pools by Bethan Roberts
Title: The Pools
Author: Bethan Roberts
Publisher: Serpent’s Tail
Published: 29 August 2007
Price: £10.99
Review Copy
Bethan Roberts has started her literary career with a disturbing tale of Middle England, mid-1980s when the death of a teenager, Robert, is the inevitably conclusion to the paths of many lives.
This is a hard book to pin down. Beth rebuilds the events that [...]
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