Heady Daze – Wayne Hussey – Book Review by Killian Laher It’s shaping up to be a year where so-called goth music transitions from ridicule to rehabilitation, with a plethora of related […]
Heady Daze – Wayne Hussey – Book Review
The Queen of Dirt Island – Donal Ryan – Audible Book Review
The Queen of Dirt Island – Donal Ryan – Audible Book Review By: Donal Ryan Narrated by: Emma Lowe Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins Amazingly, this is Donal Ryan’s 7th novel, […]
Lanegan – Greg Prato – Book Review
Lanegan – Greg Prato – Book Review by Killian Laher Cover Photo credit – Charles Peterson “Grunge’s golden era gave us some of the greatest rock voices of all-time – Chris Cornell, […]
John Robb – The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth – Book Review
John Robb – The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth – Book Review by Killian Laher Published by Louder Than War Books John Robb of the Membranes runs the music website […]
The Circle – Dave Eggers – Audible Book Review
The Every – Dave Eggers – Audible Book Review By: Dave Eggers Narrated by: Dion Graham Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins What do you get when you combine two of the […]
Stuart Braithwaite – Spaceships Over Glasgow – Book Review
Stuart Braithwaite – Spaceships Over Glasgow – Book Review by Killian Laher Published by White Rabbit Books It seems a little strange, the main man of a predominantly instrumental band, writing a […]
Paper Cuts – Ted Kessler – Book Review
Paper Cuts – Ted Kessler – Book Review by Killian Laher Paper Cuts by Ted Kessler – Published by White Rabbit Ted Kessler is a music journalist who wrote for both NME […]
Crossroads – Jonathan Franzen – Audible Book Review
Crossroads – Jonathan Franzen – Audible Book Review Author: Jonathan Franzen Narrator: David Pittu Publisher: Macmillan Audio Audio Length: 25 hours This is the latest novel by Jonathan Franzen, known for works […]
The First Bad Man – Miranda July – Audible Book Review
The First Bad Man – Miranda July – Audible Book Review Narrated by: Miranda July Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins If you haven’t discovered Miranda July yet, it really is about […]
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? – Lorrie Moore – Audible Book Review
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? – Lorrie Moore – Audible Book Review A Novel by Lorrie Moore Who Will Run the Frog Hospital is a novel written by Lorrie Moore which […]
Paint My Name In Black and Gold – Mark Andrews – Book Review
Paint My Name In Black and Gold – Mark Andrews – Book Review by Killian Laher In the space of little over a year, there have been not one but two forensic […]
Tenement Kid – Bobby Gillespie – Book Review
Tenement Kid – Bobby Gillespie – Book Review by Killian Laher In a way, it’s a little surprising that Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie hasn’t written an autobiography until now. As the […]
Mark Lanegan – Devil In A Coma – Book Review
Mark Lanegan – Devil In A Coma – Book Review by Killian Laher Preorder the book: https://smarturl.it/DevilInAComa If you thought last year’s autobiography was dark, Mark Lanegan has followed it up with […]
Like Magic In The Streets – Tim Blanchard – Book Review
Like Magic In The Streets – Tim Blanchard – Book Review by Killian Laher From time to time a music book appears that just captures the mood of the time it attempts […]
Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart – Audible Book Review
Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart – Audible Book Review Shuggie Bain is the first novel by Douglas Stuart. It was published in 2020 and went on to win the Booker Prize in […]
Boys Don’t Cry – Fiona Scarlett – Audible Book Review
Boys Don’t Cry – Fiona Scarlett – Audible Book Review by Pat Viale Set in a rough tower block in inner-city Dublin, ironically named after Mother Teresa, Fiona Scarlett’s remarkable début novel […]
Willy Vlautin – The Night Always Comes – Book Review
Willy Vlautin – The Night Always Comes – Book Review by Killian Laher If you’re familiar with Willy Vlautin’s books, or his songs with former band Richmond Fontaine or the Delines, you’ll […]
The Lamplighters – Emma Stonex – Audible Book Review
The Lamplighters – Emma Stonex – Audible Book Reviewby Pat Viale Based on the real-life disappearance of a group of lighthouse keepers on the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides in 1900, […]
This Mournable Body – Tsitsi Dangarembga – Audible Book Review
This Mournable Body – Tsitsi Dangarembga – Audible Book Review This Mournable Body By: Tsitsi Dangarembga Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo – Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins This book was nominated for […]
Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro – Audible Book Review
Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro – Audible Book Review by Patrick Viale To be in any way critical of a new novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, especially since his winning the […]
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson – Audible Book Review
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson – Audible Book Review Review by Patrick Viale Available on Audible Since the publication of her first novel, “Crow Lake”, at the age of 55, […]
The Book of Koli – M. R. Carey – Audible Book Review
The Book of Koli – M. R. Carey – Audible Book Review by Pat Viale Set sometime in the future, “The Book of Koli” is the first of a trilogy of novels […]
Exit – Audible Book Review – Belinda Bauer
Exit – Audible Book Review – Belinda Bauer Felix Pink is a decent man. A kind man. A man of integrity. However, when we first meet him in Belinda Bauer’s new thriller […]
The Three-Body Problem – Liu Cixin – Audible Book Review
The Three-Body Problem – Liu Cixin – Audible Book Review The Three-Body Problem is the first book in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy which was written by Liu Cixin. It was […]
Radio Life – Derek B Miller – Audible Book Review
Radio Life – Derek B Miller – Audible Book Review by Pat Viale Since the publication of Mary Shelley’s “The Last Man” in 1826, post-apocalyptic and dystopian tales have caught the popular […]
The Odd Women – George Gissing – Audible Book Review
The Odd Women – George Gissing – Audible Book Review by Patrick Viale In Dublin’s Mount Jerome Cemetery a headstone bears a poignant epitaph erected by “The Home for Aged Governesses and […]
The Man Who Never Was – Mark Dawson – Audible Book Review
The Man Who Never Was – Mark Dawson – Audible Book Review by Pat Viale From the jungles of Colombia to the drug dens of Amsterdam, Mark Dawson’s latest thriller, his 16th […]
The Children’s Train – Viola Ardone – Audible Book Review
The Children’s Train – Viola Ardone – Audible Book Review by Pat Viale Translated by Clarissa Botsford The news in Ireland has been dominated in recent weeks by the disquieting facts revealed […]
The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen – Audible Book Review
The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen – Audible Book Review Narrated by: Francois Chau – Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins The Sympathizer takes the form of a confession from a prison […]
No More Workhorse 