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No Man’s Land by Richard K Morgan

Armed with a trench knife, an iron-shooting trench gun, and his ancestral Sgian-dubh, Duncan Silver is a woodsman, hired to retrieve lost children from the wicked forest fairies - a task he accomplishes with an excess of violence, gratuitous swearing, and occassional graphic sex with beautiful women.

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk.

A gentle account of a young person's stay in a guesthouse for gentlemen at a high altitude eastern European health spa for tuberculosis..

Same Time, Next Year at the Little Theatre in Birkenhead

Cinema guarantees the exact same performance and homogeneity of experience wherever you go. Watching amateur dramatics in small, local theatres is... fun.

I had a great day today, and then my dog died.

Molly was a classic example of 'Live fast, die young.' and she lived very, very fast.

The Stranger Times series (Tales from The Stranger Times) by C.K. McDonnell

Bizarre phenomena form the background to this series of five novels, but they aren't the plot. The staff aren't necessarily reporting that these things actually happened - only that people believe they happened.

DadNog - an egg-free eggnog

I don't like eggs, but it occurred to me that barring the rum, what we were looking at was basically a custard recipe

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

I liked it, but I didn't love it, and it's hard to say why exactly.

Birkenhead Priory

The Priory is a place out of time. A relic of the Middle Ages set squarely on an industrial estate and rammed up against Cammel Laird shipbuilders.

Oxford Soju Club by Jinwoo Park

For an action-packed spy caper, Oxford Soju Club is a surprisingly gentle, easy read.

Embassytown by China Mieville

Embassytown is confusing from the start. That's not a bad thing or a criticism.