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HarperCollins to launch social networking site for authors

9 May 2008

HarperCollins UK has released its new social networking site Authonomy in private beta. The book publisher first announced the initiative in October 2007, and the site was expected to launch in early 2008. Authonomy aims to connect aspiring authors…

John Burnside - Glister

John Burnside - Glister

(4 stars)8 May 2008

SOCIAL DRAMA (Jonathan Cape) It’s safe to say this latest novel from Fifer John Burnside won’t be sparking a tourism boom on the east coast anytime soon. But his bleakly beautiful tale digs beneath the surface of the everyday to do what he does best…

Mark E Smith with Austin Collings - Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E Smith

Mark E Smith with Austin Collings - Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E Smith

(4 stars)8 May 2008

MUSIC BIOGRAPHY (Viking) The real joy of Mark E Smith and The Fall has always been expecting the unexpected. His music has always stuck to a rigid formula but is somehow never formulaic, and he’s survived every British musical subculture since punk…

Anne Donovan

Anne Donovan - Being Emily

8 May 2008

I first saw Anne Donovan in 2001 on the underground ‘stage’ of Glasgow’s 13th Note Café, surrounded by beer bottles, graffiti and posters advertising upcoming gigs by the punk and metal bands that usually played there. People were crammed into the tiny…

Also Published - 5 Travel Books

8 May 2008

Daniel Kalder - Strange Telescopes Following up his Lost Cosmonaut, this intrepid Fifer goes on the hunt for some more offbeat individuals in the former Soviet Union. Faber . Susanna Clark - A House in Fez Subtitled ‘Building a Life in the Ancient…

Ed Park - Personal Days

Ed Park - Personal Days

(3 stars)8 May 2008

COMIC THRILLER (Jonathan Cape) Set in an unnamed New York company, Ed Park’s quirky debut begins like a Dilbert cartoon or a particularly deadpan episode of The Office. A group of interchangeably fireable wage slaves, their jobs ill-defined even to…

Garth Ennis

Garth Ennis & Darick Robertson - The Boys II

(4 stars)8 May 2008

SUPERHERO SATIRE (Titan) Some 20 years ago Alan Moore asked the question: ‘Who watches The Watchmen?’ Garth Ennis answers the question with this anarchic superhero satire about a gang of super-powered, CIA-backed thugs who police – with extreme…

John Miller - Secret Agent: Chronicles of Doom

John Miller - Secret Agent: Chronicles of Doom

(3 stars)8 May 2008

SPY SATIRE (Small Press) You can see the work of Edinburgh cartoonist John Miller on posters and adverts hanging in the city’s Deadhead Comics, but none hint at his proclaimed double life as the template for James Bond, with inspiration imparted to…

Jordan Crane - The Clouds Above

Jordan Crane - The Clouds Above

(3 stars)8 May 2008

FANTASY (Fantagraphics) American cartoonist Jordan Crane’s all-ages graphic novella first published in 2005 makes its paperback debut complete with five previously unseen pages. It’s actually a follow-up to the self-published and now out-of-print The…

Bedsit Journal

Richard Cowdry & Various - The Bedsit Journal No 2

(4 stars)8 May 2008

COMPILATION (Bedsit Journal) Marshalled together by the artist and writer Richard Cowdry whose previous comic seed bombs include Kartoon Cuts and Knucklehead, this funny, bitter and vulgar collection of new comic book talent proves what can be done…

Richard Mason - The Lighted Rooms

Richard Mason - The Lighted Rooms

(3 stars)8 May 2008

FAMILY DRAMA (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) The Lighted Rooms takes on a vast array of human experience from Boer War concentration camps and townships of modern-day Bloemfontein to commodities trading crises and antiseptic nursing homes in 21st century…

William Sutcliffe - Whatever Makes You Happy

William Sutcliffe - Whatever Makes You Happy

(3 stars)8 May 2008

FAMILY COMEDY (Bloomsbury) William Sutcliffe, Edinburgh-based spouse to Maggie O’Farrell and schoolmate of Ali G, is still best known for his 1997 coming of age debut Are You Experienced? Eleven years and three more books later, his fifth novel…

Shortlists for James Tait Black Memorial Prizes announced

2 May 2008

The 2008 nominations for the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes , Britain's oldest literary awards, have been announced. The Prizes are awarded annually by the University of Edinburgh for the best work of fiction and the best biography published during…

Janelle Brown

Janelle Brown

24 Apr 2008

It might be set in a curtain-twitching west coast suburban American town rife with neighbourly intrigue and extra marital affairs, but Janelle Brown’s debut novel is no Desperate Housewives. In All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, far darker things go on…

James Kelman

James Kelman - Kieron Smith, Boy

(3 stars)24 Apr 2008

POST-WAR NOVEL (Hamish Hamilton) James Kelman doesn’t have a reputation for writing easy-to-read books. Not necessarily a bad thing, since often the most rewarding fiction is the most demanding. Compared to his last two novels, Translated Accounts and…

Andrew Drummond

Andrew Drummond - Elephantina

(3 stars)24 Apr 2008

HISTORICAL TALE (Polygon) Scottish author Andrew Drummond has a strong reputation for writing comedic historical novels, and while this third book covers similar territory, it seems thinner on substance than his previous outings. Purporting to be the…

Brent Ghelfi - Volk’s Game

Brent Ghelfi - Volk’s Game

(2 stars)24 Apr 2008

CRIME THRILLER (Faber) This debut novel from former US Court of Appeals clerk Brent Ghelfi introduces us to Alexei Volkovoy. ‘Volk’ (‘wolf’), a one-time sniper for the Russian Army in Chechnya, is now an unscrupulous gangster commissioned to steal a…

Also Published - 5 Sports Paperbacks

24 Apr 2008

Barry Davies - Interesting, Very Interesting Over 40 years of broadcast commentating are recalled here by a man who reached the peaks when he went on Big Train to cover the World Stare Out Championships. Headline . Eddie Jordan – An Independent Man…

Civil War: Iron Man

Civil War: Iron Man

(3 stars)24 Apr 2008

SUPERHERO (Marvel) He’s an Avenger; he’s been Secretary of Defence; he’s a member of the shadowy Illuminati. But nothing exemplifies Iron Man’s key position in the world of comics more than his role in Marvel’s huge crossover event of 2006, Civil…

The Invincible Iron Man

Iron Man: Demon in a Bottle

David Michelinie, Bob Layton & John Romita Jr

(4 stars)24 Apr 2008

SUPERHERO (Marvel) In the world of comics Iron Man is one of the main players in the Marvel Universe. As provisional leader of the Avengers for many, many years, he’s helped shape the fictional world more than most. However Iron Man hasn’t crossed…

Extremis

Iron Man: Extremis

Warren Ellis & Adi Granov

(5 stars)24 Apr 2008

SUPERHERO (Marvel) This is perhaps the classic modern Iron Man tale. Warren Ellis gets his grubby hands on Tony Stark and changes him forever. Here the Golden Avenger takes on bio-chemically altered terrorists, who possess more power than even his…

Steven Galloway - The Cellist of Sarajevo

Steven Galloway - The Cellist of Sarajevo

(3 stars)24 Apr 2008

WARTIME DRAMA (Atlantic) ‘It is a sad tune. But it doesn’t make me sad,’ someone said of the cellist who played Albinoni’s ‘Adagio’ for 22 days in remembrance of innocents killed while standing in a queue for bread. This is a sad book, but it might…

The Invincible Iron Man

The Invincible Iron Man

(2 stars)24 Apr 2008

DVD (12) 80 mins (Lionsgate) The new big budget feature isn’t the first Iron Man movie as this 2007 animated feature from Marvel proves. The film revisits Iron Man’s first showdown with the Mandarin. The animation is fine but overall the film…

Tim Winton - Breath

Tim Winton - Breath

(3 stars)24 Apr 2008

TEENAGER STORY (Picador) Tim Winton’s first novel for seven years is ostensibly a coming of age story which follows Bruce Pike (‘Pikelet’) from naïve and wild adolescence into emotionally maimed adulthood. Most of the time, however, Breath reads like…

Writers announced for Jura Malt Whisky Writer Retreat

24 Apr 2008

John Burnside and Romesh Gunesekera have been selected for 2008’s Jura Malt Whisky Writer Retreat, the Scottish Book Trust has announced. They will be joined by a third writer for the chance to find inspiration on one of Scotland’s most beautiful…

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