Litrefs Reviews
Monday, 27 October 2025
"The Englishman" by David Gilman
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An audio book. Someone's chased through a wood by gunmen. There's a battle to occupy caves - helicopter gunships, French legionnai...
Sunday, 26 October 2025
"Pity"' by Andrew McMillan
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An audio book. Short - less than 4 hours. Pubescent Alex is looking at a porn mag when his older brother Brian come in. They look at it tog...
Saturday, 25 October 2025
"The Love Shack" by Jane Costello
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An audio book. Dan and Gemma (both approaching 30) want to buy a particular house. The book alternates between their PoVs (though there...
Friday, 24 October 2025
"Dreich #7" (Jack Caradoc (ed), 2020)
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This is a Scottish poetry magazine which is no longer accepting submissions. There are some good lines scattered around, and poems I’m not ...
Thursday, 23 October 2025
"Restless Coffins" by M.P. Wright
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Prologue: Barbados, 1934. Joseph and sister Bernice find the rotting corpse of a policeman by the shore. Bristol, 1967. Joseph has been in ...
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
"Whatever you do, just don't" by Matthew Stewart (Happenstance, 2023)
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Poems from Bad Lilies, High Window, Poetry Birmingham, Rialto, Spectator, Stand, Wild Court, etc - a good list. The sections are entitled ...
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
"Stand Volume 20 (1) 2022"
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I don't usually write about the magazines I read, but I've not written about Stand for a while. It's landscape A5, 144 2-column ...
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