Daily Bookshot: Post-apocalypse

Post-apocalypse, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. They featured together in an event (you can read about it here), so how could I not feature a shot of Steven Amsterdam's Things We Didn't See Coming (Harvill Secker) sitting alongside … [Read more...]

EdBookFest 2011 Diary: Day #7 – of apocalyptic events and island-hopping

Note: remember to scroll down to the bottom for picture highlights from the day. If you're here every day at EdBookFest (or almost every day), then you realise, very quickly, that the pace of the world's finest book festival is relentless. How the … [Read more...]

Forethoughts: Things We Didn’t See Coming by Steven Amsterdam

Now here's a work of fiction that I know absolutely nothing about; and I know even less about its author, Steven Amsterdam. However, I have it on very good authority that Things We Didn't See Coming (Harvill Secker) is an unmissable debut, and I … [Read more...]