As a late starter writer, but a life long reader, I have always held writers (particularly novelists) in ridiculously high esteem, assuming them to be children of greater gods, if…
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Darkly funny, extraordinary tale about a South African living in LA who fears losing all that he loves IMPERFECT SOLO Steven Boykey Sidley Picador Africa MEYER appears to have it…
A life of blight and wry humour Steven Boykey Sidley turns a mid-life crisis into an internal adventure, writes Beverley Roos Muller MID-LIFE often arrives with the brassy blare of…
There was a time in my life when I was a programmer. Or software engineer, in more current parlance. This career in which I laboured during my young adulthood came…
A couple of years ago my wife, writer Kate Sidley, had a humour column in a monthly health magazine. Each month she mined the great steaming petri-dish of gyms and…
Book Review – The Children Act by Ian McEwan I have a rocky relationship with McEwan’s work. I liked Atonement. I loved Amsterdam. I rhapsodised to the point of obsession…
Book review – Us by David Nicholls As part of my slow and faltering journey through the Booker longlist I waded into this book with a considerable amount of curiosity….
Book Review – Let Me Be Frank With You – Richard Ford This is fourth book in what was originally a completed trilogy by Ford – three iconic and truly…
Ah, where to start on this entangled, undisciplined, dissonant, amazing carnivore of a book? A ragged, shredded, broken-toothed affair, a story of Australia related by a melange of unpredictable and…
Book review – & Sons by David Gilbert The first thing that announces this book is the cover, itself almost worth the price. It is an utterly arresting shot of…