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The novelist and short story writer JG Ballard, is known for conjuring warped and reimagined versions of the world he occupied. Dealing with strange exaggerations of realities and often detailing the breakdown of social norms, his unconventional works are hard to categorise....
Alan Moore - the genre-defining writer behind works including Watchmen, From Hell, Jerusalem, and the short story collection Illuminations - has officially announced his next project, The Great When, revealing the book’s mind-bending cover. Moore has long teased his plans for the ‘Long London’ quintet - a series which will...
This year marks 200 years since the birth of George MacDonald, whose fantasy writing and ideas on faith inspired literary greats including JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis....
Canadian actor Keanu Reeves will publish his first novel this year in collaboration with British author China Miéville....
Hello. I’m UKFilmNerd, you can usually find me at !homevideo. While I usually review films on my little blog space, I occasionally branch out and try reviewing other forms of media....
The UK’s beleaguered public libraries have been let down by years of indecision and delays over how to spend millions of pounds in funding earmarked for a nationwide website....
Philosopher John Gray chooses as his great life the iconic British writer of dystopian and speculative fiction, J.G. Ballard, in conversation with the author’s daughter Bea Ballard.
For a while, it looked like his name and reputation were going to be hijacked by absurdly wealthy, self-regarding tech doofuses. In his pre-X days, Musk claimed to be taking inspiration from Banks’s sci-fi visions, declaring himself a “utopian anarchist” while gesturing vaguely toward the Culture universe. Amazon big...
A pig will be named after Bob Mortimer’s debut novel, The Satsuma Complex, as the comedian’s book has been announced as the winner this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction....
"The Culture: The Drawings* by Iain M. Banks. I was blown away when I first read Banks’s The Wasp Factory and met his unreliable young narrator, Frank. When I discovered, in The Player of Games, that adding an M to his name brought you a universe run by benevolent AI minds (with brilliant names: I’m thinking of you, Mistake...
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Since it’s impossible to read Partridge without hearing his voice in your head, this is a book best enjoyed in audio where, courtesy of Coogan, his pompous pronouncements and warped self-analysis take flight. As ever, the writing is atrocious in the best possible way. In Big Beacon, Partridge is in his element, which is to say...
Two books I have read by author Chris Baker as they popped up cheap as ebooks via Amazon....
I remember reading an article a few months ago about how the vast majority of books published don’t make their production costs back. And this got me thinking. How many ‘new’ books do you read each year?...
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The title is a quote from Shaun of the Dead — meaning something that can’t be bettered, that is as good as it gets — and it is not a celebrity memoir. It is a cookbook. But Delia it is not....
A spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘Peace and Justice Project’ said: “In light of the recent allegations concerning Russell Brand, we have removed his contribution from our upcoming Poetry For The Many project.”...
I’ll kick us off with a few of my favourites....
After four decades in the comic book industry, Alan Moore is relishing being in the world of literary publishing. “I’m having a very good time of it,” says Moore, whose debut collection of short stories, Illuminations, is just out in paperback....
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Osman owes an obvious debt to Agatha Christie, but also to more recent light-hearted, larky mysteries by the likes of Alexander McCall Smith and Agatha Raisin author MC Beaton. The crimes “aren’t that grizzly, or they’re off stage, so you don’t see the death”, notes Dr Jennifer Young, head of writing and journalism at...
This might sound a bit cliche, but The Lord of the Rings was that book for me. I read it when I was 20. I’d just started my first real job, I’d started to spread my wings a little and I’d finally gotten around to reading this absolute titan of a book....
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