Book Reviews
14:57 - 18 March 2010
Writer Jamie Delano, artist Jock TWENTY-five years after he made his name by launching the character s solo title, Delano makes a triumphant return to the world of John Constantine, the manipulative urban shaman who skirts the fringes of the dark mystical... Full Story »
14:56 - 18 March 2010
Writer Mike Carey, artist Peter Gross IMAGINE if you were the son of a fantasy author even more popular than JK Rowling, and he had based and named his lead character after you. Take that concept, add the mysterious disappearance of your father and your b... Read More »
14:56 - 18 March 2010
Writers Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges, artists Mark Buckingham, Tony Akins et al NOW in its 13th volume, and having spun off into second series Jack of Fables, Bill Willingham s fantastic story of fairy tale characters forced into exile in modern da... Read More »
14:55 - 18 March 2010
Writer Peter Milligan, artist Edvin Buikovic IT S an interesting take on the bodyguard concept – disguise yourself as your client in order to flush their would-be assassin out of hiding, all the while dodging the bullets, blades and bombs meant for them.... Read More »
12:22 - 18 March 2010
Read by David Tennant THE tenth Doctor is back for a last hurrah, just before the start of his successor s first series in the role, in an adventure perfectly tailored for audio. A lost recording is discovered at the bottom of the sea in the wreck of a fl... Read More »
12:21 - 18 March 2010
Read by Christopher H Bidmead IT is the end, but the moment has been prepared for… The shadow of his impending regeneration hangs ominously over the fourth Doctor s actions in this final adventure for Tom Baker s celebrated interpretation of the Time Lo... Read More »
12:21 - 18 March 2010
Read by Peter Davison THE newly transformed fifth Doctor is in trouble. His companion Adric has been kidnapped by the Master, the TARDIS is spinning out of control towards the very beginning of the universe, and his regeneration seems to be failing, with... Read More »
09:44 - 18 March 2010
CHRISSIE always believed Richie loved her during their 23 years together, but he had never married her. The security of marriage belonged to Margaret, who lived in Newcastle where Richie had started off as a musician before he became famous. They were his... Read More »
09:29 - 17 March 2010
WELCOME to the world of Flavia de Luce, an 11-year-old sleuth with an astonishing knowledge of chemistry and a young lady that you seriously do not want to make an enemy of. Her father is at the centre of a murder enquiry after a dead bird with a rare st... Read More »
09:26 - 11 March 2010
THE winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize, released in paperback last week, is a brilliantly written historical epic charting the rise of one of the most influential characters in Henry VIII s court. Thomas Cromwell, Putney born blacksmith s son, near-kil... Read More »
11:18 - 18 February 2010
Written by Paul Cornell, illustrated by Leonard Kirk et al HAVING had the pleasure of meeting series creator Paul Cornell recently, what immediately comes across is his passion and enthusiasm for this project, which makes it even more depressing that poor... Read More »
11:17 - 18 February 2010
Written by Jim Starlin, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson IN the wake of character-defining series The Dark Knight and Year One, set in his future and past respectively, the Batman faced his greatest modern-day challenge in the form of charismatic shaman De... Read More »
11:16 - 18 February 2010
Written by Peter Milligan, illustrated by Chris Bachelo and Mark Pennington TORN from his home in the Meta dimension in order to bring Earth s bubbling insanity under control, Rac Shade possesses the body of serial killer Troy Grenzer at the point of exec... Read More »
11:15 - 18 February 2010
Written by Peter Milligan, illustrated by Chris Bachelo and Mark Pennington DEVELOPING the themes and characters established in the first explosive volume of Shade, this follow-up continues the protagonists struggle against the dark force of the American... Read More »
09:53 - 28 January 2010
JUST when you thought you d seen the last of the 10th Doctor, David Tennant returns for a final hurrah in this exclusive audio adventure… Travelling alone, the Doctor has just arrived on board the maiden voyage of a pioneering space cruiser travelling fro... Read More »
09:52 - 28 January 2010
AS the world shivers beneath the grip of a new ice age, with advancing glaciers threatening to destroy civilisation, the TARDIS brings the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria to a remote English scientific base, where an ancient creature has been unearthed in the... Read More »
09:51 - 28 January 2010
THE return of Doctor Who to British TV screens in 2005 was always going to be a big deal, but nobody at the time could have predicted quite how extraordinary its success was going to be. What could have ended up as a short-lived nostalgia trip has exceede... Read More »
09:50 - 28 January 2010
THE best-selling author of Q&A – filmed as Slumdog Millionaire – returns with his follow-up novel in this full-cast Radio 4 drama, recorded on location in India and featuring Rajit Kapur Zafar Karachiwala and Radhika Mital. Vicky Rai, notorious son of a p... Read More »
09:48 - 28 January 2010
SIMON Russell Beale stars as George Smiley, one of fiction s greatest characters, in this new all-star Radio 4 dramatisation of John Le Carre s classic spy thriller, part of a comprehensive series of adaptations of the complete Smiley novels. With retirem... Read More »
15:44 - 07 January 2010
IN the early years of the 31st century, gifted teenagers from myriad worlds inspired by the legacy of the Man of Steel unite to form the Legion of Superheroes, an independent peace-keeping force pledged to maintain order over the galaxy. It is a pattern r... Read More »
15:43 - 07 January 2010
OUTSPOKEN TV news reporter Vic Sage hides his public face beneath the blank facade of The Question, a ruthless vigilante tackling the deep-set corruption inherent in Hub City, in one of the most highly-acclaimed comics series of the 1980s. The man withou... Read More »
15:43 - 07 January 2010
A SPIN-off from the successful Fables series, which featured exiled fairy tale characters living in modern day New York, JoF focuses on the adventures of the most famous Fable of them all, the hero also known as Jack the Giant Killer, Jack Horner, Jack Fr... Read More »
12:14 - 24 December 2009
AND so just as we were getting used to Tom Baker once again taking on the role of the Fourth Doctor, his quintet of all-new adventures comes to an end. Out of all the stories, this final volume highlights the fact that Mike (Richard Franklin) Yates is a n... Read More »
12:10 - 24 December 2009
CONTINUING the linked series of audio stories which have seen Tom Baker return to the role of the Fourth Doctor after more than 25 years… In this latest instalment, the Doctor arrives in 11th century Northumbria, a bleak midwinter where ferocious wild dog... Read More »
12:42 - 17 December 2009
RARELY does the action, pace and interaction of a popular video game translate well onto the printed page. Fortunately for fans of the award-winning, smash hit Gears of War series, this is not only the exception but it also stands alone as a highly accomp... Read More »