BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: One Fine Day
By Ian MarchantPublished by September Publishing, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Ian Marchant, a regular presenter on ‘Open Country’, Radio 4, and diarist for Church Times, is dying. Side by side with his discovery of his soon-to-arrive demise, he delves…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Follow the Money
By Paul JohnsonPublished by Abacus, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON The subtitle of this book is ‘how much does Britain cost?’, cost being defined here by the balance of taxes in and government spending out. As the author notes, public…
The Stamp of Innocence
by Aled Gwyn JôbPublished by Troubadorrrp £ at Bookbusterreview by Tim Barton The 'Post Office scandal' has dominated the news for a few weeks now, yet it goes back a quarter of a century! That incredibly long-running series of injustices…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW – Disconsolate Dreamers: On Pessimism and Utopia
Published by Zer0 Books, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON ‘Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’, said Romain Rolland, sadly remembered primarily for being a Stalinist. He used the phrase in a 1919 essay, which was read by the…
Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness & Disability
LOUISE KENWARD Through twenty-five pieces of prose, poetry, and artwork, this new anthology offers a vision of nature that encompasses the close up, the microscopic, and the vast. From a single falling raindrop to the enormity of the north wind,…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW – Palestinians and Israelis: A Short History of Conflict
Published by The History Press,rrp £ BY TIM BARTON In Deuteronomy, Chapter 31, Moses claims ‘the Lord’ promised a swath of land west of Jordan to the Israelites, saying ‘the Lord shall do unto them as he did to Sihon…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Occult & Uncanny Zines
Shuck; Undefined Boundary; Myth & Lore; Hellebore; Grimoire Silvanus; and moreat BOOKBUSTERREVIEW BY TIM BARTON Over the last couple of years, I have seen a boom in interest in the occult, the uncanny, and the gothic, in psychogeography and hauntology.…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Weird Walk
By ‘Weird Walk’!Published by Watkins Books, 2023 rrp £ BY TIM BARTON The Weird Walk zine has been selling well at Bookbuster for a while now, and has reached issue #6, as well as putting out one-off zines, Magic Circle,…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW – All In: How we Build a Country that Works
By Lisa NandyPublished by Harper North, 2023 rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Lisa Nandy is stuck in a party that is losing public confidence fast, no one appears to like Starmer much. The only saving grace is that the Tory…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Ritual
Published by Weird Walk (in collaboration with StudioCanal & TSPTR)2023, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON ‘Oh, Jesus Christ!’ If you’re a Wicker Man fan, you’ll love Ritual! From the offices of Weird Walk, our favourite ‘journal of wanderings and wonderings’,…