Once Upon A Time In The North is the latest book by Philip Pulmanand is a prequel to the hugely successful His Dark Materials trilogy, telling the story of the first encounter between the aeronaut Lee Scoresby and the armoured bear Iorek Byrnison. It is only a short book and I read it out loud [...]
April 12, 2008
Empire State
It’s difficult to know what exactly to write about Henry Porter’s Empire State. Porter’s themes are the old familiar ones: terrorism, international crime, espionage, the rather questionable behavious of the security services, all set in a world where morality is not the black and white issue we might like it to be, and where the [...]
