Tag: Book
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Book review – All That Lives by James Oswald
Pub Date 17 Feb 2022 Headline/Wildfires Two victims. Nothing connects them, except that someone buried them in the exact same way.Seven hundred years apart. An archaeological dig at the old South Leith parish kirkyard has turned up a mysterious body dating from around seven hundred years ago. Some suspect that this…
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Out Now – Jeff Lynne: Wembley Or Bust, celebrating 50 years of ELO
OUT NOW – JEFF LYNNE: WEMBLEY OR BUST GENESIS PUBLICATIONS CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF ELO WITH NEW TRADE EDITION Available from: www.jefflynnebook.com Marking the 50th anniversary of ELO’s formation, and 3 years since the stunning Wembley concert, Genesis Publications have released the bookstore trade edition of Jeff Lynne’s book, Wembley…
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Book review – The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
Pub Date 2 Sep 2021 Canongate Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he’s dead and it was no accident. Besides a distraught family and a heap of powerful friends, Carter’s left behind his share of enemies. So, who dealt the fatal blow? DC…
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Book news – Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen
ERUPTION CONVERSATIONS WITH EDDIE VAN HALEN Brad Tolinski & Chris Gill 28th October 2021 * £25 * Hardback * Hachette Books A completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen via a groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than 50+ hours of interviews with Eddie, his family, and friends…
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Book news – Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin
BEAST JOHN BONHAM AND THE RISE OF LED ZEPPELIN C.M. KUSHINS FOREWORD BY DAVE GROHL 30th September 2021 * £25 * Hardback * Hachette Books The first full-length narrative biography of Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham, considered by many to be one of the greatest drummers in rock history, and a…
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Please Please Tell Me Now – The Duran Duran Story
THE DURAN DURAN STORY STEPHEN DAVIS 29th July 2021 * £25 * Hardback * Hachette Books ‘You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something – it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think Duran…
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Book review: Rabbit Hole by Mark Billingham
Little, Brown [Publication date 22.07.21] “The shocking, original and completely unpredictable new novel from multi-million selling master Mark Billingham is a standalone thriller to keep readers up at night.“ A stand-alone novel and one that is different from Mark Billingham’s Thorne series and other stand-alone books, in that it involves…
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Book review: Who Took Eden Mulligan? by Sharon Dempsey
Avon Books [Publication date 18.02.21] Description They’re dead. They’re all dead. It’s my fault. I killed them.’ Those are the words of Iona Gardener, who stands bloodied and staring as she confesses to the murder of four people in a run-down cottage outside of Belfast. Outside the cottage, five old…
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GENESIS PUBLICATIONS REVEAL TRADE EDITION OF WEMBLEY OR BUST BY JEFF LYNNE
RELEASED SEPTEMBER 14th 2021 AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER AT JEFFLYNNEBOOK.COM Genesis Publications are pleased to announce the trade edition release of Wembley or Bust: Jeff Lynne’s ELO by Jeff Lynne. First published in 2018 in a limited run of only 1,500 signed copies, for ELO fans the original publication remains a…
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Book review – Consolation by Garry Disher
Serpent’s Tale/Profile Books [Publication date 03.06.21] The third in Garry Disher’s rural Aussie noir series featuring Constable Paul ‘Hirsch’ Hirschhausen, who has been demoted and sent to small town Tiverton. Like the previous books it covers a multiple series of events that Hirch becomes involved in and the author successfully…
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Book review – The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
A book that gradually builds the tension and relationships between the main characters as the story progresses. Told from each of the main characters viewpoints the narrative switches from 1972, when the three keepers disappeared, to 1992 and the three surviving wives/girlfriend looking back on what may have happened in…
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Book review: OFF THE CHARTS by KAT GOLDMAN
Sutherland House [Publication date 09.02.21] Canadian singer songwriter Kat Goldman has made four critically acclaimed albums and her songs have been covered by Grammy-nominated band, The Duhks, Dar Williams, among many others. I will be honest I had not heard of her or her music until reading this book, however,…
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Book review – The Coffinmaker’s Garden by Stuart Macbride
Harper Collins [Publication date 07.01.21] A village on the edge…As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith’s home is falling into the North Sea. But the crumbling headland has revealed what he’s got buried in his garden: human remains. A house full of secrets…With the storm still raging,…
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Book review – Mind Games by Neville Southall
HarperCollins [Publication date 17.09.20] “In this unique book, one of football’s greatest cult players reflects on the travails of the modern game, how some of society’s problems are reflected within it and draws upon his own experience to tackle one of its final remaining taboos: mental health. On fear of…
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Book review – V2 by Robert Harris
Random House/Cornerstone [Publication date 17.09.20] “On the brink of defeat, Hitler commissioned 10,000 V2s – ballistic rockets that carried a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound, which he believed would win the war. Dr Rudi Graf who, along with his friend Werner von Braun, had once dreamt…
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Book review – Domino Island by Desmond Bagley
HarperColins I used to enjoy Desmond Bagley novels from the early 80’s when I first discovered his writing. The fact that this book started back in 1972 is now being published some forty odd years later is a bit of a treat. Reading a Bagley novel again you can see…
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Book review – Bird Therapy by Joe Harkness
The introduction by Chris Packham certainly pulls no punches as he writes about his own struggles with mental health. He also speaks highly of the author Joe Harkness, as will any one who takes the time to read this book. In it the author describes his own breakdown and how…
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Book review – Sword Of Kings by Bernard Cornwell
Harper Collins [Publication date 03.10.19] Bernard Cornwell does it again with another enjoyable Uhtred of Bebbanburg tale – the twelfth in the series. It has it all you’d expect from a Cornwell novel – historical background and atmosphere – you can almost smell the streets of London!). Tight plotting and…
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Book review – This Little Dark Place by AS Hatch
Serpent’s tail/Profile Books [Publication date 10.10.19] How well do you know your girlfriend? How well do you know your lover? How well do you know yourself? Daniel and Victoria are together. They’re trying for a baby. Ruby is in prison, convicted of assault on an abusive partner. But when Daniel…
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