Cloud Busting – Malorie Blackman
Just a few days ago my eleven year old son came home from school bursting with enthusiasm for a book…
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The Anthologist – Nicholson Baker
Last year I read two books by favourite writers, both of which disappointed a little. The biggest let-down was Exiles,…
The Memory of Running – Ron McClarty
Picked this up for £2 in Bargain Books, in what must have been a shop clearance. It’s a book about…
The Heather Blazing – Colm Toibin
I haven’t read Colm Toibin before, but appreciated the reviews for Brooklyn and so thought I would test the waters…
The Corner – David Simon, Ed Burns
The summertime is a good time for books, and given that this one was of a type that we now…
Bruce Springsteen, The Wire & The Corner
What, you might ask, brings these three together? Gritty urban realism perhaps? I’ve just started reading The Corner, from the…
The American Future – A History, Simon Schama
If you saw the TV documentary you’ll know what to expect, but the book is even better, and one of…
The Blue Parakeet – Scot McKnight
‘The Blue Parakeet – rethinking how you read the bible‘ is the latest book from NT scholar Scot McKnight. He…
The Dangerous Act of Worship – living God's call to justice – Mark Labberton
This book opens with the following explanation, Worship names what matters most: the way human beings are created to reflect…
Greetings from Bury Park, race. religion. rock'n'roll – Sarfraz Manzoor
This book came to me courtesy of friend and fellow Springsteen fan, Bill Shaw. It’s the memoir of journalist and…