So bad it’s… bad

We were on holiday in Northumberland, near Hadrian’s Wall, visiting lots of Roman archaeological sites, so we thought we’d watch…

Roman holiday

It’s a long time since I’ve been to a museum or a gallery, what with global pandemics and everything. We…

Finally, an academic has written a book about what I spend most of my time doing. Well, I say finally……

This is the second cook-book that I’ve read simply because it happens to be a comic published by Shortbox. Like…

I’ve been on a mission recently to catch up with the output of two of my favourite writers, Kim Stanley…

I spent a while back there in the early noughties thinking that all the fusions had been tried, and that…

I’ve known the story of Gawain and the Green Knight for a long time, initially from Roger Lancelyn Green’s King…

Bryan Talbot is a national treasure of British Comics, with a career that stretches from his underground Chester P. Hackenbush…

I’m still undecided what I think the precise aesthetic or narrative effects are of using anthropomorphic animals as characters in…

Kim Stanley Robinson keeps coming back to what might be described as ‘environmental fiction’, and ecological themes are never far…

There are a few bands or musical artists of whom it’s possible to say that ‘their first album is the…

This one-shot comic, which is the first book I’ve pulled at random out of what is to be the last…

I’m not too sure why it’s taken me so long to get around to reading Hilary Mantel’s novels about the…

I’ve been following the work of James Beaudreau since he sent me a trio of beautifully packaged CD albums for…