December means time to take a look back on the previous 12 months. Being a multimedia blog these days I have more than film to consider. Fir...

Expendables UK week continues with a look at some of the great fiction that highlights the behaviour of the British underworld and their int...

Savages by Don Winslow My rating: 5 of 5 stars Blurb: The smash hit thriller about two young marijuana dealers who are blackmailed...

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb: Robert Neville is the last man left alive on Earth...but he is not ...

What Is To Become Of Us? Player One by Douglas Coupland My rating: 5 of 5 stars Blurb: International bestselling author Douglas ...

The world-famous novel of the ultimate famine! The Death of Grass by John Christopher My rating: 4 of 5 stars Essential Must-Read...

The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan My rating: 3 of 5 stars A Gothic Western 'This sure is a weird place,' Greer said...

Digital Filmmaking by Mike Figgis My rating: 5 of 5 stars This guide to filmmaking in the early 21st century reads like an anti-Mi...

Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata My rating: 4 of 5 stars Yasunari Kawabata was the first Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize ...

He Died With His Eyes Open by Derek Raymond My rating: 5 of 5 stars I'm starting on the second instalment of this brilliant seri...

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb: Haruki Murakami, the internationally bestselling author of Norwe...

What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line by Art Linson My rating: 4 of 5 stars The best Hollywood biography sin...