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How I Write Fiction
Part one of a three part series on how, what, and why I write fiction.(Jump to: Part Two | Part Three) My first published story was called The Lion Tamer, hence the photo above. I wrote it when I was at primary school, aged ten or eleven, and it ended up being printed in one…
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Book Review: My Legendary Girlfriend
My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. My Legendary Girlfriend is the story of Will, a hopeless romantic who is still trying to get over being dumped by the love of his life three years before. The book is set over the course of a single weekend, and is a…
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Book Review – Who Moved My BlackBerry?
Who Moved My Blackberry? by Lucy Kellaway. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Who Moved My BlackBerry is the hilarious story of Martin Lukes and his struggle to reach the top of the corporate ladder and become “22.5 percent better than his bestest”. The book is written entirely as a series of emails from Martin…
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Book Review – The Funeral Birds
The Funeral Birds by Paula R.C. Readman. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Funeral Birds is a charming little tale about a private detective who is about to close his agency for good when one last client walks in. I don’t usually read crime fiction, but I found this to be a fun, fast-paced story…
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Book Review: About a Boy
About a Boy by Nick Hornby. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. About a Boy is a simple tale about a relatively shallow man in his thirties who thinks he has everything, and a twelve year old boy who is struggling to fit into life at a new school after the separation of his parents.…
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Book Review: Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. My rating: 1 of 5 stars. Atlas Shrugged is a behemoth of a book that doesn’t know what it is. It wants to be a novel, but it also wants to be a vehicle for Rand’s objectivist philosophy. By trying to be both, it fails to be either. For a…
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