Get yourself over to ‘Blog a Holiday Read’ courtesy of Penguin and register yourself smartish. You can receive a free book, on the provision that you blog a review of it.
I got ‘The Great Gatsby’ – and I’m looking forward to reading it this summer!

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One of my favourite books of recent years has made it to the big screen – with the impending release of Choke by Chuck Palahniuk.

The (NSFW) trailer is good enough to keep me going, but I can’t wait to see this.

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I’m not a big reader of crime fiction – especially those murder mystery type affairs where an enigmatic cop find his way through a labyrinth of information to arrest the psychopath – that’s too much like my day job.
However – someone bought my a hardback of Broken Skin for my birthday last year, and [...]

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Whilst I was looking at information about the new James Bond film, I noticed that Daniel Craig is due to play the devil (alongside Ewan McGregor as the main character – Declan Gunn)  in a movie based on one of my favourite books of recent years.
I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan tells the story of [...]

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Interesting article in the Guardian by Mark Lawson this morning about publicists trying to release movies, books and TV shows without critics even seeing them – to save potential bad reviews.
It seems that increasingly the press are only getting to see movies at the very first public screenings (Friday afternoon on the day of release), [...]

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After finishing Devil May Care, I decided that I needed to read more of Sebastian Faulks work, so I plumped for ‘Engleby’ first. After finishing it late last night, I’m glad I did – it is an absolute corker of a book.
Engleby is the story of a man who wins scholarships to first a [...]

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I picked up a copy of the new James Bond book on Wednesday evening, after unfruitful trips to a couple of bookshops where it had sold out I had given up trying to find one and thought I would wait until I could get one from Amazon, but just as I walked through the train [...]

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So - this was supposed to be a cool thing showing 16 random books from my website…but it broked my RSS feed, so I’m removing it till I understand what the fudge is going on!

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We have bunches of books at home…loads and loads of dead trees stacked on neat looking shelves around the house, thanks to Sandrine we have many books in French, and I’ve always been an avid reader - so we’ve accumulated a small rain forest.
I’ve always wanted a list - mainly so I can track the [...]

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“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ “

God Bless You Mr Rosewater [...]

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