Review – F by Daniel Kehlmann I have been trawling lists again. Last year it was the Booker Longlist, which I attacked with unseemly optimism and basically fizzled after about…
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If I had to list my 10 best books of the last year or so, the following would emphatically be on it, probably near the front – Ben Fountain (Billy…
A number of people have asked why I always write good reviews, never bad ones. The reason is simple – I only review books that I like. I stay silent…
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…
Book Review – Traveling Sprinkler by Nicolson Baker The only other book of Nicolson Baker I have read was in 1993. It was Vox, and it made him briefly famous,…
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…
Book Review – Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill This is a startling book. It is startling in almost every interpretation of the word. It is startling because it is…
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…