Doing a review for this book that does it just is, well… impossible. How I would love to stop my review there, but Amazon and other sites require a certain number of words, so I will endeavour to say more. One of the challenges with doing a review for Impossible (also know as The Impossible…
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Book Review: “The Man Burned By Winter” by Pete Zacharias
I got this book as part of Amazon Firsts, where you get a free book a month or so before the main release. This is the first of a new series involving the protagonist and it may be one series that I continue to read. The first thing to say about this book is that…
Book Review: “British Nuclear Culture” by Jonathan Hogg
I have been reading this book carefully for a few weeks now, but it’s appropriate that I reached the end this week. I first came across the book when I heard the author, Jonathan Hogg, speak at Troubling Anniversaries Conference in 2021. Now, like coming full circle, I’ve just finished the book having given a…
Book Review: “To Hell and Back” by Niki Lauda
This book had been on my wishlist for quite some time, but I held off on getting it. The main reason for this was a silly reason in many respects. One of my favourite films is ‘Rush’ (dir. Ron Howard, 2013) and it contains one of my favourite sequences from any film and I was…
Book Review: “Family Money” by Chad Zunker
I got this book as part of Amazon Firsts, where you get a free book a month or so before the main release. I’d not read any books by this author before, but I will certainly be having a look at the others he has written. Usually when I review a book, rather than go…
Book Review: “Doctor Glass” by Louise Worthington
I got a copy of this book as an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC), so knew nothing about it before starting to read it. This, in itself, is very unusual since I tend to read the cover details about a book before buying or borrowing a book. Going into this one – other than knowing vaguely the…
Book Review: “Strangers We Know” by Elle Marr
Who are we? Where do we come from? I don’t ask these questions in terms of the bigger questions in terms of where all life came from, but more in terms of our own life. Most of us know the answers. We know who our parents are. We know who are siblings are. Some will…
Book Review: “Or Else” by Joe Hart
I got this book as part of Amazon Firsts, where you get a free book a month or so before the main release. I was particularly attracted to this one since the protagonist writes novels, which is something that I also do in my spare time. In the end, while there was so much I…
Book Review: “The Man With The Red Tattoo” by Raymond Benson
Further to reading “You Only Live Twice” by Ian Fleming and inspired by some of what was written by Graham Thomas, a chat we had together and what is on his excellent blog site, I decided to read a James Bond book not written by Fleming. As noted in my review of “You Only Live…
Book Review: “Death In The Sunshine” by Steph Broadribb
I got this book as part of Amazon Firsts, where you get a free book a month or so before the main release. From the blurb that accompanied the text, it sounded interesting. Unfortunately, I really couldn’t click with the book. There were some good bits – generally lines here and there, rather than anything…
Book Review: “World In My Eyes” by Richard Blade
I like to read autobiographies (most recently “Heart and Soul” by Carol Decker of T’Pau) and biographies. When I was listening to an episode of the Don’t You Forget About Me – The New Wave Music Podcast, during which they did a review of “Science Fiction” as well as “Transcendance” by Berlin, they mentioned how…
Book Review: “No Place To Run” by Mark Edwards
Reading books is often about escapism – travelling to another place and getting away from the troubles of the “real world”. I often read books set outside the UK for that reason. But, sometimes there is no escape. The thing that I have always enjoyed most about Mark Edwards’ books is that he takes characters…
Christopher P. Hood 