Category Archive: Books

Something You Said’s Year in Books

Our resident book expert, Jess O’Callaghan, gives you the heads up on what you should have been reading this year: A year in books is always hard to write. Everyone’s year in books… Read More

Thank you Bryce Courtenay

Kaya Strehler makes her Something You Said debut by paying tribute to an author and legend: If you are unaware of who Bryce Courtenay is, hang your head in shame. IN SHAME, I SAY.… Read More

How to blow your own trumpet

With 14 years of experience in the music biz, Stacey Piggott has written a book that aims to help bands get their music heard. It dispels a few myths and gives tools to enable the reader… Read More

Jay Stringer interview

Jay Stringer is a Black Country native and Wolverhampton Wanderers fan currently living in Glasgow and an exciting new voice in British crime fiction. Jay’s debut novel, Old Gold, is a cracking piece… Read More

Patriarchy & Abuse

This year, October is National Domestic Abuse Awareness month in the US. On 1st October 2012, Barack Obama issued a Presidential proclamation calling ‘on all Americans to speak out against domestic violence and… Read More

Damn Terran’s Ali and her favourite books

Ali Edmonds from Damn Terran talks us through her favourite books: Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell I read this just before I went to both Paris and London for the… Read More

Birdy is a touching paean to friendship

William Wharton’s classic novel of friendship and the terrible cost of war has tragically been out of print for the last few years. This haunting and brilliant novel that was adapted into an… Read More