Ian Ayris
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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"I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face."
John Fante - Ask the Dust
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Ian Ayris
- Feb 8
- 4 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 6 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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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Ian Ayris
- Apr 26, 2022
- 3 min
RIVAL SONS by Aidan Thorn - a review
The Blurb When Kyle Gordon hears that his mother is terminally ill he makes the journey back to his hometown for the first time in nearly...
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Ian Ayris
- Feb 8, 2022
- 3 min
BLACK MOSS by David Nolan - a review
The Blurb In April 1990, as rioters took over Strangeways prison in Manchester, someone killed a little boy at Black Moss. And no-one...
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Ian Ayris
- Jan 27, 2022
- 3 min
SAY GOODBYE WHEN I'M GONE by Stephen J Golds - a review
THE BLURB 1949: Rudy, A Jewish New Yorker snatches a briefcase of cash from a dead man in Los Angeles and runs away from his old life,...
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Ian Ayris
- Jan 17, 2022
- 3 min
CHASING THE GAME by Paul Gadsby - a review
The Blurb London, Spring 1966. England’s Football Association is preparing to host the World Cup but it is about to be shocked - and...
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Ian Ayris
- Jan 27, 2021
- 3 min
BURKE'S LAST WITNESS by Caroline Dunford
The Blurb The true story of the world's first serial killers... Burke’s Last Witness is a poignant haunting psychological drama which...
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