So I've worked my way through the novel shortlist, and I've a pretty good idea that I will be actually marking 'No Award' above one particular book. If it had been a physical volume, I'd have thrown 'Blackout' against the wall. After 150 pages, Willis still hadn't engaged me one way or the other ( Read more... )

I finished reading Robert Rankin's latest pbb last night, and was amused at the Tuckerisation of lproven, but also by the presence of a young lady in a straw hat playing anachronistic music on steel drums.

I wonder who that might be based on.

The third connection is its use of Bletchley Park as a setting. Which reminds me: A few tickets left for ( Read more... )

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Many Happy Returns to slovobooks. Have a great day.

Next year in Northampton?

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