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Resistance by Owen Sheers – Book and Movie Review

Resistance, written by Owen Sheers and published in 2007, is a literary alternative history novel set in 1944 in a Wales occupied by Nazi German troops. There was…

Never More Alive Published

My creative non-fiction story, Never More Alive, has been published in Stray Words Magazine. It’s a humorous look at what happens when your past life crashes into your…

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Book Review

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, written by John le Carré and published in 1974, is le Carré’s masterpiece, even better than The Spy Who Came In From The Cold….

Swastika Night: Book Review

Swastika Night was written by Katharine Burdekin and published in 1937 under the pseudonym “Murray Constantine”. It is remembered primarily as the first novel to portray a world…

Come Into My Parlour – Novel Review

Come Into My Parlour, written by Dennis Wheatley and published in 1949, was the sixth of Dennis Wheatley’s novels featuring secret agent Gregory Sallust—a series that critics sometimes…

The Scarlet Pimpernel – Book Review

The Scarlet Pimpernel, written by Baroness Emma Orczy and published in 1905, was based on a popular play also written by the Baroness first performed in 1903. The…

Never Let Me Go: Book Review and Analysis

Never Let Me Go, written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published in 1992, is one of the greatest alternative history novels ever written. It’s the only alternative history novel…

Revolutions 2: More Speculative Short Stories set in Manchester

Revolutions 2: More Speculative Short Stories set in Manchester is my second anthology as an editor –  a collection of science-fiction, fantasy and horror stories with one thing in…

A Legacy of Spies: Book Review

A Legacy of Spies is a John le Carré novel published in 2017. It’s a parallel story to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, within a…

Kingsman: The Golden Circle – Movie Review

Kingsman: The Golden Circle released in September 2017, starring Taron Egerton, and directed by Matthew Vaughn, is an espionage-comedy-thriller sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service. It follows the continuing…