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  Many dystopian tales are high tech, stylised, futuristic fantasy fables that entertain us without making us unduly uncomfortable - think H...

  I remember reading Ms. Soave’s first novel Ginger and Me , and believing it to be something of a coming of age story.   (I wrote about the...

  The short story is an underrated genre. Character, plot, setting and suspense all combine succinctly to a satisfactory conclusion. It used...

Unfortunately, my covid recovery is taking longer than I would have liked. One visit to the surgery later and I was told it can take up to s...

I must admit that initially this book had me fooled into thinking it was set in the town where my brother lives in Shropshire, Ludlow. And i...

  When I’m feeling down and in the need of a cheer up, streaming a few episodes of Smack the Pony usually does the trick. So I was really ex...

Q: What's the best way of trying to get a politician to actually listen to you?  A: Get yourself stranded with one on an iceberg.  Apolo...