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Lessons To Be Learned: Gabriella Cilmi
For a CD recorded and arranged by Sugababes stalwarts and soon-to-be Franz Ferdinand collaborators Xenomaina, and with Saint Etienne input, Amy Winehouse comparisons seem a little inappropriate. Certainly there’s more soul’n’sass than jazz’n’junk herein, and if anyone should go in…
Summer at Eureka: Pete Murray
Pete Murray is by now a household name, the biggest male vocalist in the country. Multi-platinum albums, Number ones and an ability to call the shots when it comes to his career. He recorded this new album at his home…
Bowery: Firekites
This CD turned up a few weeks ago in the post. There was no information at all about it. But after a few minutes, I was quickly hooked, as were my colleagues in the office who all enquired as to…
Rockferry: Duffy
So many young soul singers coming out of the UK at the moment! Having grown up in a small Welsh village, with no record collection, and then leaving school at 15 to pursue a singing career, Amy Duffy (Duffy to…
Blue Convenant: Maude Barlow
At the universal scale, swathes of water visually distinguish Earth as the blue planet. At the molecular scale, water is a significant part of living beings; life on Earth originated from and is supported by natural water systems. For all…
Cemetary Lake: Paul Cleave
In New Zealand, Theo Tate, a private investigator, finds himself part of an investigation involving the exhumation of the body of a potential murder victim. As the body is being exhumed, several corpses bob to the surface in a lake…
Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death: Gyles Brandreth
Oscar Wilde being used as a fictional detective? I blanched at the very thought – until I began reading, and quickly dropped my objections. The second of Gyles Brandreth’s mysteries sees Oscar Wilde investigating a series of bizarre deaths in…
Voice Over: Celine Curiol
A nameless young woman announces the train schedule at the Gare du Nord in Paris. The object of her desire lives with another woman, an ‘angel’. She is persuaded to assist a transvestite in his show, running on stage, desperately…
Petropolis: Anya Ulinich
This darkly comic debut is both admirably clever and intensely moving. The satire is spot-on and the word pictures just stunning, but the really smart thing about this book is something that seems very simple but is actually quite tough…
All The Sad Young Literary Men: Keith Gessen
All the Sad Young Literary Men is the first novel by Keith Gessen, one of the founding editors of cutting edge US literary magazine, N+1. As the title suggests, it is primarily concerned with three over-educated and literary young…
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