Book Reviews
Naked City – Eric Drooker (Dark Horse Books)
A book designed to warm the cockles of your heart, Naked City tells the age-old story of the starving artist trying to make their way in the world by doing what they love. Told through…
Nefarious Artists: The Evolution and Art of the Punk Rock, Post-Punk, New Wave, Hardcore Punk and Alternative Rock Compilation Record 1976 – 1989 – Welly Artcore (Earth Island Books)
After the tour diary-style shenanigans of Directions To The Outskirts Of Town, Welly the creative force behind Artcore,, has turned his focus to the most unsung of subgenres and perhaps one of the most underrated…
Doctor Who: Ruby Red – Written by Georgia Cook & Read by Millie Gibson (BBC Audio/BBC Books)
Most of the time with audiobooks of Doctor Who novels, the text and the reading work together as one, adding drama and emotion to the work as it exists on the page. And then, just…
Doctor Who: Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide To The Whoniverse – Jonathan Morris, Simon Guerrier & Una McCormack (BBC Books)
Whotopia is two, moderately incompatible, things. Firstly, it is gorgeous. Weighs about the size of a concussion, crammed with fabulous full-colour photographs of many of the things it describes. A coffee table book that, if…
Come My Fanatics – A Journey Into The World of Electric Wizard – Dan Franklin (White Rabbit)
Those familiar with Dorset’s seminal Doomsters Electric Wizard will no doubt be aware of their taciturn, some might say outright hostile, demeanour to the press and indeed the world in general; having the slogan “legalise…
Mass Movement Presents… Episode 67 – Hold On To Your Hats And Glasses…
In which the middle miscreants chat about Tim’s recent Florida trip, talk Disney, beer, and bourbon, Christopher Golden’s ‘All Hallows’ and share their thoughts about the new season of Doctor Who. There’s lots for Star…
Doctor Who: The Giggle – Written by James Goss & Audiobook Read by Dan Starkey (BBC Books)
The Giggle is not, at any point, fair to its fellow 60th anniversary Doctor Who specials. It never was, right from the on-screen version. Where The Star Beast translated a beloved early Eighties comic-book into…
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…