When I first worked on animal mechanical cohesion through genetic and biological capability, It came easy, snails and slugs are easily...

AI is not intelligent enough to write novels. Yet. One day it will be and will possibly even be able to produce novels to suit the vast...

A wise man doesn’t travel much during the winter if he can help it. The weather is normally bad, it is normally cold, frequently rains,...

I suppose I am different to most writers. I like listening to music, softly, in the back ground whilst I am writing. It does not affect...

There was an article in the guardian last week about the best first lines in a novel, their suggestions were excellent and I generally...

Tis’ rare that I wax lyrical about a book. Rarer still that I would suggest an accolade of five stars. Mr Pressfield has written many...

The effect upon your consciousness of what you have read, heard or seen is truly dramatic. Each and every piece of what goes to make up...

A cracking new fantasy, well written, well received by the critics as far as I could see. I found the novel easy to get into, neither...

What can I say? What can anyone say? Terry Pratchett does "Phantom of the Opera" with Witches. A particular set of witches. In his own...

This book should never have worked but it did. This is one of those silly ideas that writers have that should be kept away in a bottom...

I have enjoyed the majority of Conn Iggulden’s historical fiction from the very beginning. As a “looks good” cover choice from...

I will not be the first to review this book nor the last but as a fan of Mr Kings better books this is not lacking. A good. well written...

Surely the from "bad to worse" novel is endemic. Poe, Vonnegut and Hardy are hardly the progenitors. Imagine, Homer, Virgil and...

I am unsure what to say about this book. A good thriller. The writing is not enchanting but it gets it's point across( despite the odd...

Now that I am back working full time, in fact more than full time I am reading so much it is scary. I have always, as all who frequent...

Earnest Hemingway once said... "There is no friend as loyal as a book" But books can be disloyal friends, books can be be the beginning...

Are they delivered by a stork carrying a small pink or blue blanket in its beak? Do you find them in the cabbage patch, or do they spring...

Craft Talk. The layman's guide to cleaning up a skull. Remove all extraneous material from the skull (set aside for later use). The...

Once upon a time, after the Greeks, Romans and Persians said farewell to empires, French and Germanic literature flourished for a while...

A simple tap on my kindle screen bought me this book. Why I chose it? it was cheap and I had ran out of things I wished to read so...