Underground – The Subterranean Culture of DIY Punk Shows – Daniel Makagon (Microcosm Publishing) A scholarly analysis of the history and development of DIY punk shows in non-traditional settings such as house shows, community halls…
Well, apart from that disappointing early period where I could barely hold a crayon never mind summon a coherent idea. My mother wrote poetry for her own entertainment and I grew up in a house…
Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film – Edward Ross (SelfMadeHero) Having been enchanted, and enamoured, by film from the first time I experienced it in all its cinematic glory in nineteen seventy seven, I can…
Dead Kennedys : Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables : The Early Years – Alex Ogg (PM Press) This book has been a long time in the making so I was relieved when a copy finally…
If you set out to write a whaling story, you’ll find there’s quite an elephant in the room to be worked around. Well, maybe not an elephant. But an extremely large mammal nevertheless, and one…
Klaxon – Si Spencer & Dix (Self Made Hero) Books should stay with you long after you’ve finished reading them. They should haunt your dreams, fill your idle thoughts with endless potential, they should reshape…
Gestapo Mars – Victor Gischler (Titan Books) From the moment I first saw it, I knew I was going to love this book. I mean, come on, how could I not? With a cover featuring…
Night Music: Nocturnes Volume 2 – John Connolly (Hodder) A collection of supernatural fiction to rattle your cage. Night Music is John Connolly’s second collection of supernatural tales, featuring his short fiction written in the…
This January, Spoken Arts label, Cadabra Records will proudly bring you the first in a dedicated series collecting the best of author H.P. LOVECRAFT, with The Hound & The Music Of Erich Zann. 2015 marks…
1) Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone’s The Forest of Doom: Probably the single most re-read book I’ve ever… er… read. The third entry in the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series could probably be credited with transitioning…
The Martian – Andy Weir (Del Rey) In our ongoing exploration and experimentation of the planet Mars to see just how inhabitable it really is, astronaut Mark Watney was stranded there after an emergency evacuation….
Sensorama – Editor: Allen Ashley (Eibonvale Press) Collection of 21 short stories in which the senses play centre stage with suitably unsettling, and in some cases, nauseating results. The stories are a mix of horror,…
