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Ian Ayris
Mar 6, 20245 min read
ACCORDING TO MARK by H.B. O'Neill
The Blurb Robert is unravelling. Following a devastating break up he finds himself distraught, desperate, and increasingly confused. When...
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Ian Ayris
Feb 19, 20244 min read
THE POSTER by James Marshall - a review
The Blurb Seemingly abandoned by their parents, siblings Lena and Alek are caught up at different ends of a war - while Lena designs...
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Ian Ayris
Jan 22, 20243 min read
A Dead American in Paris by Seth Lynch - a review
The Blurb Paris 1931 Arty Homebrook lived and died in a world of sleaze which stretched from Chicago to Paris but never beyond the...
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Ian Ayris
Nov 7, 20232 min read
THE DEVIL'S BLUES by Ricky Bush - a review
Book 2 of The Crime Fighting Bluesmen series The Blurb Jerry Roberts is found unconscious outside a firebombed church but far from being...
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Ian Ayris
Jun 14, 20234 min read
SPIRIT BURNS by Tina Jackson - a review
The Blurb Madge didn’t mean to kill her best friend, but what happens when the only choices you get to make are bad ones? Following the...
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Ian Ayris
Mar 13, 20233 min read
THE BELOVED CHILDREN by Tina Jackson - a review
THE BLURB Three young women; Chrysanthemum, Rose & Orage are thrown together performing as The Three Graces on the stage of Fankes’...
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Ian Ayris
Feb 8, 20234 min read
PROJECT PROMETHEUS by Matthew X. Gomez - a review
The Blurb Tom Costigan is a washed-out mercenary, stuck cleaning dishes for a hole-in-the-wall bar despite his chrome arm and the...
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Ian Ayris
Feb 6, 20232 min read
My January Book Journey
Books completed: The Oaxacan Kid by Ricky Bush Pages: 250 Very enjoyable Southern Blues crime novel with a great atmosphere and a...
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Ian Ayris
Jan 16, 20232 min read
A YEAR IN BOOKS - MY JANUARY READS
I am, by nature, something of a chaotic person. And these past couple of months, life has sent things my way that have knocked me off...
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Ian Ayris
Nov 20, 20224 min read
PURE by Jo Perry - a review
The Blurb 'Caught in a pincer movement between the sudden death of Evelyn (her favourite aunt) and the Corona virus, Ascher Lieb finds...
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Ian Ayris
Nov 7, 20223 min read
SLOWER BEAR by Anthony Neil Smith - a review
The Blurb Micah “Slow Bear” Cross returns in another breathless slice of pitch-perfect pulp from noir legend Anthony Neil Smith. After...
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Ian Ayris
Aug 5, 20223 min read
MOBY DICK by Herman Melville - a few thoughts . . .
I read a brilliant biography of Melville a few months back by Andrew Delbanco, called Melville - His world and work The biography, as...
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Ian Ayris
Jul 12, 20223 min read
BLOOD AND CINDERS by DDC Morgan - a review
The Blurb London 1949. Speedway fever runs high. Its stars are the working class heroes of a Blitz-torn city emerging from the ravages of...
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Ian Ayris
Jun 27, 20223 min read
NEEDLE SONG by Russell Day - a review
The Blurb Spending the night with a beautiful woman would be a good alibi, if the body in the next room wasn't her husband. Doc...
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Ian Ayris
Jun 13, 20224 min read
Bishopsgate, 23rd May 2022
It is half past three on a sunny Tuesday afternoon, and I am sitting on the wide stone steps of the massive Eataly - a sort of Italian...
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Ian Ayris
Jun 5, 20223 min read
GOD IS A KILLER by Max Thrax - a review
The Blurb The end of the world. MacDougall, a violent and ruthless prophet with visions of the apocalypse, returns to his old compound -...
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Ian Ayris
Jun 1, 20223 min read
The Silver Jubilee - extract from ABIDE WITH ME
The Queen’s fuckin Silver Jubilee wotsit bollocks. Load of fuckin shit. At school, they got us makin flags and banners and streamers,...
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Ian Ayris
May 31, 20226 min read
The Liberty, Romford, 26th May 2022
When I was a child, the Central Post Office in Romford was huge. To my little eyes, there seemed to be at least a hundred counters, and...
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Ian Ayris
May 24, 20224 min read
Church Lane, Leytonstone, 16th May 2022
The sound of a million honking seals bursts from the Argos on Leytonstone High Road. I peer into the darkness of the shop from the sunlit...
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Ian Ayris
May 23, 20223 min read
THE MYSTERY OF CHARLES DICKENS by A.N. Wilson - a review
The Blurb Charles DIckens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Like Oliver...
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