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Why you should read You Were Never Really Here in one sitting

And when the narrative stops on a dime after an ice-cold 97 pages, you’re left wanting more.

Listen to my new ambient track: Into Thin Air

Written, played and recorded by me on the incredibly responsive Roli Seaboard and Lightpad MIDI controllers into GarageBand. What do you think?

The jury is in for Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Execution of Justice

The case is open and shut. But when the incarcerated murderer hires a disreputable lawyer to investigate the possibility that it was someone else, the case inverts into a claustrophobic entanglement of red tape, sin and checkered pasts.

Film review: Why you need to track down The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Devastatingly powerful and disorientating filmmaking, The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a true original.

Check out the wintery music video for my ambient electronica music track WHITEOUT

I wanted to layer, interweave and repeat instrumental loops to a point whereby it was almost like breathing.

Unlocking a riveting Japanese mystery: Masako Togawa’s The Master Key review

Themes of security, honour, obligation and voyeurism converge into something enticing and engaging under Togawa’s pen.

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Film review: You Were Never Really Here – a corkscrew descent into the allure of violence

Review: Paul Howarth’s debut novel Only Killers and Thieves – a western of grit and grace

COMPETITION: Win H. Jon Benjamin’s “attempted” memoir FAILURE IS AN OPTION!

Lost and found: The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm is a novel yearning for discovery