Ian Ayris
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...
"I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face."
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Ian Ayris
- Jul 12
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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Ian Ayris
- Dec 9, 2020
- 3 min
DREAD: THE ART OF SERIAL KILLING by Mark Ramsden - a review
The Blurb Mr Madden, Dickens enthusiast, muses with his beautiful and bohemian prisoner on possible endings to the famous author’s...
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Ian Ayris
- Dec 1, 2020
- 3 min
SOUND OF THE SINNERS by Nick Quantrill - a review
The Blurb In SOUND OF THE SINNERS we find Joe Geraghty leaving his new home in Amsterdam to attend the funeral of his former business...
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Ian Ayris
- Nov 6, 2020
- 3 min
RUBICON by Ian Patrick - a review
The Blurb 'Two cops, both on different sides of the law – both with the same gangland boss in their sights. Sam Batford is an undercover...
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Ian Ayris
- Oct 26, 2020
- 3 min
A MINT CONDITION CORPSE by Duncan MacMaster - a review
The Blurb Batman schmatman, there's a new hero in town and he's kinda dorky... Kirby Baxter went to Omnicon for the cosplay, the comics...
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Ian Ayris
- Oct 13, 2020
- 3 min
There is a Lake in a Wood
Outside of the town so full of crumbling people and flowing tears, there is a lake in a wood. The lake no longer fills and is stagnant...
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Ian Ayris
- Sep 14, 2020
- 3 min
BACK DOOR TO HELL by Paul Gadsby - a review
THE BLURB Boy meets girl. Girl has a plan. A plan that’ll change everything. Nate and Jen are two working class kids looking for a chance...
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