Book Reviews
Doctor Who: The Church On Ruby Road – Written by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson & Audiobook Read by Angela Wynter (BBC Books)
The Church On Ruby Road was designed to be very much the start of a new era of Doctor Who. Even from his first full appearance in the Tardis, the Fifteenth Doctor, played by Ncuti…
Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder – Novelization by Mark Morris & Audiobook read by Bonnie Langford (BBC Books)
First, a disclaimer: of the three 60th anniversary specials released in 2023, Wild Blue Yonder was my least favourite. The bizarre pre-credits sequence, complete with the mavity gag that appears to be dying no time…
Doctor Who: The Star Beast Novelization written by Gary Russell, Audiobook read by Jacqueline King. From an original comic strip written by Pat Mills and John Wagner, and drawn by Dave Gibbons (BBC Books)
The Star Beast, as most Doctor Who fans know by now, was the first of three 60th anniversary special episodes in 2023, bringing David Tennant back from the dead, no longer the Tenth Doctor, but…
Miles Per Gallon – Mike Magrann (DiWulf Publishing)
You know those pull quotes that always litter the covers of half-baked airport thrillers and self-help guides that purport to have been written by double-digit IQ Instagram gurus of the week that always claim that…
The Daily Doctor – Whoniversal Meditations On Life And How To Live It
Written by: Simon Guerrier and Peter Anghelides Published by: BBC Books Fact 1 – Doctor Who, as a program with 60 years of dialogue, heroism, villainy, folly and wisdom, can, if you let it, make…
Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story – Daniel Rachel (White Rabbit Books)
Andrew Marvell perfectly encapsulated the bane of the human condition when he wrote “But at my back I always hear, times winged chariot drawing near”, reminding all and sundry that life is fleeting, and #that…
How Much Art Can You Take? – Nancy Barile & Philin Phlash (Radio Raheem)
I’m guessing the majority of people reading this review haven’t had the honour of seeing Boston Hardcore legends SSD play live, due to the fact that they never toured outside of the USA and played…
Paranoize Fanzine
Clearly we are very late to the party here as Paranoize is now on it’s 57th issue, but this is essential reading for anybody that thinks that the NOLA Metal/Hardcore scene begins and ends with…
Wild Spaces – S.L Coney (Titan Books)
All the best horror stories are the ones that lull you into a false sense of security with vivid descriptions of idyllic dreamlike surroundings, that quickly disperse into some sort of nightmare scenario. It’s an…
The Magic of Terry Pratchett
When: October 12th Where: Bloomsbury Theatre, London Marc Burrows, the man who wrote The Magic of Terry Pratchett – a book on Pratchett’s life and works that preceded the official biography by Rob Wilkins by…
My Punk Rock Life – Marla Watson (Earth Island Books / Punk Rock Life Press)
For a lot of the malcontents and outsiders who stumble into and find the punk scene, it isn’t just another rung on the ladder of life that we linger on for a while, and then…