Author Archives: Adam Randall

Although Winnie himself first appears in the Milne’s poetry collection When You Were Very Young, this book is really the first outing for Pooh and his friends. I absolutely loved it too. While I find that some children’s literature that … Continue reading →

I’m sure most people have a mental image of the assassination of Julius Caesar, and I don’t think that it would be quite as well known as it is without this Shakespeare play. I imagined that that scene would be … Continue reading →

While all of the previous Little House books (other than Farmer Boy) had quite an innocent element of childhood wonder to them, it’s in this, the fifth book, that reality hits home in a pretty major and sad way. Right … Continue reading →

This is one of those novels that everybody has heard of, but I have to be honest and say that before reading it recently, I didn’t really have any idea about what the storyline was. Yes, I knew it was … Continue reading →

After reading the previous novel, Winter’s Heart, I found myself starting to get a little burnt out on The Wheel of Time. It just felt like nothing especially interesting had happened in a long time, and while the story was … Continue reading →

In the UK, there’s an enormous distance between the working class and the wealthiest members of society – this is even more true now than when this book was written in 2011, but everything Owen Jones wrote over a decade … Continue reading →

This book was bought for me by a friend of mine last year as she thought it was something I’d quite like – it turns out, she was absolutely right. A Psalm for the Wild-Built is a story about a … Continue reading →

I’d had a copy of this play for sometime, and recently I finally got around to reading it. Although I was aware of the Henry IV plays that preceded it, I didn’t really realise that they (and also Richard II) … Continue reading →

Other than having a few very vague (but fond) memories of the Goosebumps TV series, it was a franchise I’d never really gotten into that much. Recently, I finally decided to start reading the books, starting with the first in … Continue reading →