‘Books’ Archives
An Evening with Mr Nice @ Black Dog Ballroom
Pot luck - we guest review Howard Marks' touring stage show for Large Manchester We don't normally do this, in fact we never do, but we're doing it now. We have spilled our review guts all down the shirt-front of our lovely friend Large Manchester. We went to see Howard [Read More]
Philip Townsend’s Mister Sixties: Exhibition and Collection review
Seminal photographer Philip Townsend hits us for sixties with an exhibition at the Lowry, and a companion book. For a limited time at Salford’s prestigious Lowry Art and Entertainment Centre (the theatre on Salford Quays, to you and me), the upstairs gallery is exhibiting [Read More]
NaNoWriMo: Sponsor me please
November is famous for many things; there are fireworks, chilly weather and it's the name of a mediocre film starring Courtney Cox. It is also, more recently, National Novel Writing Month- a marathon event which sees the brave, bold, drunk and foolish forsake their sense [Read More]
At last, pure Yorick – Y: The Last Man 1-10 Review
Y: The Last Man is an epic comic book series in which every male of every species is seemingly wiped out by a mysterious plague, which comes to be known as the gendercide. Brian K Vaughn and Pia Guerra’s graphic novel is a smart, sexy, witty take on the apocalypse. The [Read More]
Book Review: Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk coughs up some thought-provoking, gritty storytelling with his sex addict version of Fight Club. One of my favourite films of all time is Fight Club, and not just because I want to impress the girls or ensure people think I’m a man’s man. It's my [Read More]
