non-fiction
What makes this book so great
My first non-fiction book of 2014! And it is a book all about books. The best sort of book ;) I would consider myself a sci-fi & fantas [...]
Rin Tin Tin
The life and legend of the world’s most famous dog While serving during World War I serviceman Lee Duncan came across a little of new [...]
The good, the bad and the multiplex
As a film critic Mark Kermode watches films. A lot of films. A whole lot of films, and he often doesn’t like what he sees. He describe [...]
Obedience to authority
In the 1960s Stanley Milgram and his associates carried out a number of experiments on obedience. They were set-up a situation where people [...]
Grave’s end
In 1982 Elaine Mercado and her family moved from an apartment into what they hoped would be their dream home. This house, in the Gravesend s [...]
The Islandman
Translated from the Irish (An tOileánach) by Robin Flower Tomás Ó Criomhthain, or, if you’d prefer an anglicised version, Thomas O& [...]
In defence of dogs
I watch The Dog Whisperer, and while I enjoy it I’m often put off by Milan’s insistence that the dog wants to be the dominate on [...]
The dogs of war
Received free from NetGalley. I’m a sucker for an animal story, especially a dog story, so although I thought this would be a fairly f [...]
The lost art of reading
It is strange, I’ve often come across media stories on the “decline” of reading as a result of modern technology. Social n [...]
