Kim Churchill tells us his top 10 books
Australian songsmith Kim Churchill releases his new album Weight_Falls today. We asked him to put together his Top 10 Books for us.
Category Archive: book review
Book Review: Rise of the Super Furry Animals
Somethingyousaid.com has many Super Furry Animals enthusiasts. The biggest of all is Gary Page, who reviews the new book about them: I have to make a confession that I am an extremely sporadic… Read More
Something You Said’s Books of 2014
When considering somethingyousaid.com’s Top Ten Books of 2014, we felt privileged to have in our ranks a genuine expert. As well as writing for this very site, Joe Haddow is also the producer of the BBC Radio… Read More
Book review: Christos Tsiolkas’ Merciless Gods
Christos Tsiolkas, author of award-winning novels (Dead Europe, The Slap), shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, has released his first collection of short fiction. And as… Read More
Interview: The Knife author, Lee Markham
‘The Knife’ is the startling first novel from Eastbourne-based author Lee Markham. It’s a gritty, ferocious and angry indictment of social inequality and institutional neglect in 21st Century Britain. It also happens to… Read More
The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick Age 81
You may better know JB Morrison as Jim Bob, lead-singer of legendary 90s indie duo Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine. However, while Carter are finally winding down (they play their last ever reunion gig this… Read More
Book review: Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
Angela Haffenden considers the latest offering from Stephen King: The master of horror writers finally presents us with the sequel to The Shining. If you’ve ever seen the iconic film with the fabulous… Read More
Book Review: Jay Stringer, Lost City
The final part of Jay Stringer’s trilogy of Eoin Miller novels (the previous two were Old Gold and Runaway Town) is yet another excellent example of, what Stringer himself calls, “social pulp” fiction.… Read More
Dating, non-responses and Nathaniel P
Something You Said’s Elaina Ransford explains that everyone knows Nathaniel: Remember that awesome scene in Midnight in Paris when the Hemingway character says that he knows he’ll hate the main character’s book because… Read More
Runaway Town ups the stakes
Runaway Town is the second novel from Jay Stringer, whom I’ve previously had the pleasure of interviewing. It’s the follow-up to his blistering debut Old Gold and continues the adventures of part-Romani ex-cop… Read More
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
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