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Off Script: The Actor’s Operating System, by Francisco Marquez | Book Review
Published 17 February 2026, Off Script: The Actor’s Operating System is a practical guide for actors. The book has a unique approach to acting based on Marquez’s ‘operating system’ idea, drawing on years of the author’s experience as an actor. It is…
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The Last Diaspora: Book 1: Letters To Earth, by Mandy Gardner | Book Review
Released in 2019, The Last Diaspora: Letters to Earth by Mandy Gardner is the first in a five-book sci-fi series about planetary colonisation, published by Endless Ink Publishing. While comparisons inevitably arise to Interstellar and Andy Weir novels like The Martian, this novel carves out its…
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The Dreamer’s Path: Twin Peaks and David Lynch the Actor, by Brent Simon | Book Review
The Dreamer’s Path: Twin Peaks and David Lynch the Actor by Brent Simon, published in February 2026, is one of those wonderfully obsessive books that feels less like a standard film study and more like stumbling into a hidden archive assembled by…
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What Lies through the Smoke, by C. C. Ford | Book Review
What Lies Through The Smoke by C. C. Ford, released in 2025, is a debut novel that introduces readers to a world of dieselpunk vibes, a term I had never even heard before reading this book (in contrast to steampunk). The easiest…
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Medicine for the Blues Trilogy, by Jeff Stookey | Book Review
Published in 2017/2018, Jeff Stookey’s Medicine for the Blues trilogy—beginning with Acquaintance and continuing through Chicago Blues and Dangerous Medicine—is not exactly a new series, though its themes feel timelessly relevant. Set across the 1920s, the trilogy is an LGBT epic that follows Carl…
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Kidnapped, A Life Unbound by Michael Reif | Book Review
Kidnapped: A Life Unbound by Michael Reif is a pretty extraordinary account of a life lived far beyond the ordinary. I’d like to begin by thanking the author for providing us with an advance copy of this as-yet unpublished book. This is a…
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A Passionate Touch (In Uncertain Times) | Book Review
As the title announces, A Passionate Touch (In Uncertain Times) by Anthony Welsh is a little book about passion. Published in March 2026, it follows a romantic entanglement of Londoners Brandon and Pricilla (not Priscilla?). It is a somewhat difficult book to…
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Without a Face, by Lonnie Busch | Book Review
We’ve had the pleasure of reviewing Lonnie Busch’s books before here on the site, recently Assimilation, so when Without a Face landed on our radar we were already familiar with what this author is capable of. For those new to him, Busch…
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Houses Built by Faith: Jailhouse. God’s House. Courthouse, by Kaysia Earley | Book Review
Released late last year, Houses Built by Faith: Jailhouse. God’s House. Courthouse by Kaysia Monica Earley is one of the most inspiring books I have read in a while. It is a Christian memoir written by a Florida-based attorney who went from…
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Rubedo, by Leona Caelestis | Book Review
Rubedo by Leona Caelestis is the first instalment in the Necrocene series, two words I had to look up before even starting the book! Published a couple weeks ago, I was immediately drawn to the surreal cover, something warped yet beautiful, which…
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