Tag Archives: Book Review.

Fraser Hines, Hines Sight. Book Review.

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For many years Frazer Hines was deeply involved with two major television programmes that grabbed the nation’s attention and made him one of the best known faces throughout the latter part of the 1960s and for a good couple of decades after that. The longevity of an actor within the consciousness of the television viewing habits of the audiences can be seen to rest on the programme they are in. In Fraser Hines’ case being cast as Jamie in Doctor Who under the guidance of Patrick Troughton’s time as the Doctor and then striking gold as the gentle farmer Joe Sugden in the Yorkshire Television soap opera Emmerdale Farm was perhaps the most incredible and fortuitous time for him. As the actor relates though in his autobiography/digital release, Hines Sight, there is so much more to him than wearing a kilt for three years and defeating the Daleks and the Cybermen or enjoying immense popularity as one of Yorkshire’s favourite sons.

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(593 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Andy Wright And Marillion. 9:30 To Filmore – Photographic Memories (USA & Canada 2012.) Book Review.

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When it comes to capturing the essence of a band, the off guard moments when they are relaxing and allowed that precious few moments when they can naturally be themselves without the flash of thousand cameras going off in their direction, picking up every detail of a gig or concert there are surprisingly few real life moments of enjoyment that get past the magazine editors doors. Unless it is of a drunken night or of a clandestine meeting, no one really gets it apart from the fans themselves.

Andy Wright And Marillion. 9:30 To Filmore – Photographic Memories (USA & Canada 2012.) Book Review. full post

(761 words, estimated 3:03 mins reading time)

Ben Elton, Two Brothers. Book Review.

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There surely shouldn’t be that many people who have not at one point walked between the pages of a Ben Elton novel and been enraptured by the ease in which the writing flows and captivates. From 1989s debut Stark to his new release Two Brothers his books have ridiculed the ridiculous, poured scorn on those worthy and all the time delivered some great books in the process.

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(369 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

James Paterson, Merry Christmas, Alex Cross. Book Review.

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James Paterson’s almost near prestigious work involving the Psychiatrist turned Washington D.C. Detective Alex Cross have been as legendary as the amount of books that bear his name, either in the author’s own right or as part of his expanding output involving other writers. In the past books that involved Alex Cross have been near perfect as you wish for a modern day detective story, novels such as Pop Goes the Weasel, Roses are Red, Kiss the Girls and Double X have been a forthright look at the American crime solving.

James Paterson, Merry Christmas, Alex Cross. Book Review. full post

(447 words, 1 image, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Roger McGough, As Far As I Know. Book Review.

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Roger McGough’s reputation goes before him. A man whose poetry touches all who read, take interest and enjoy the fascinating and humour filled poems. One of the Liverpool beat poets, along with Adrian Henri and Brian Patten, who has inspired generation after generation of the city’s inhabitants and bought the distinctive voice of those people to the wider world.

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(437 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

C.J. Sansom, Dominion. Book Review.

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C. J. Sansom’s literary prowess is quite undiminished as he steps away from his famous creation of the lawyer Shardlake and the court of King Henry VIII and instead turns his thoughts to what the world and Britain would have been like had a moment in history fallen on the shoulders of Lord Halifax instead of Winston Churchill. Dominion is that toss of a coin moment in history in which Churchill doesn’t take the pivotal decisive step and take the office of Prime Minister and instead a new history is made and the whole of Europe, 12 years after the fateful Norway occupation, is under the jackboot of Nazism and Britain is suffering for her appeasement.

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(529 words, 1 image, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

James Herbert, Ash. Book Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 10th 2012.

James Herbert has been the undisputed master of British Horror for the last 40 years. His books have thrilled millions and his writing has been loved all over. Aside from Stephen King, he is the very embodiment of spine-chilling terror.

In his first book for six years he re-visits an old character in David Ash, last seen in The Ghosts of Sleath in 1994. Whilst it is plain for his legion of fans to acknowledge that he still has the command to influence your darkest thoughts, to terrify the reader into a unconscious state of trepidation and despair, his books have become staid in parts, overblown and disturbingly grandiose which is not the reason the public fell in love him.

James Herbert, Ash. Book Review. full post

(498 words, 1 image, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)