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. . . written by Tom Cunliffe, of East Sussex, England (to read more about me see my About page).
It consists of book reviews and more general articles about reading and currently receives over 10,000 unique visitors each month. So far 290 book reviews have been published. My currently-reading shelf:  This website is archived for posterity in the British Library's UK Web Archive 
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. . . its hard living up to a child’s hopes. Right! I said we’re going to buy some biscuits and a bottle of water, and we’re going to have a picnic down by the sea! Its raining, Stan said, like it was my fault, and that was when I’d had enough. This skilfully written [...] Twenty years ago I sat in front of my television watching crowds stream through the Brandenburg Gate as the East German border guards finally gave up the job of trying to prevent people crossing from one side of the Berlin Wall to the other. Anyone with a sense of history could not help but share [...] Gordon Burn died two weeks ago, after a writing career in which he developed a reputation for covering difficult subjects with a radical pen. Burn sliced through the myths about celebrity and fame, whether dealing with notorious criminals (Fred and Rosemary West, Myra Hindley, Peter Sutcliffe), or well known figures in the entertainment and sporting [...] This fascinating book, The Ballad of Britain, charts the journeys of Will Hodgkinson around Britain as he travels around Britain tracking down the answer to the question, What is the “music of the people” today? As he loaded his state-of-the-art recording equipment into his beaten up old Vauhall Astra, his goal was to “capture the [...] |
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