Tuesday 27 February 2024

Alrightreads: Preliminary

Nigel Kneale, Tomato Cain and Other Stories

1949 / Ebook / 256 pages

***

A diverse assortment of Manx produce, but a disappointing debut for one of the first great TV writers.

Faves: 'Chains,' 'Curphey's Follower,' 'The Pond'


Mark Millar, Nigel Kitching and Daniel Vallely, Saviour, Book One

1989-90 (collected 1990) / Ebook / 128 pages

**

The incomplete, derivative saga of tramp Jesus and His inexplicably Jonathan Ross-faced adversary.


David Lee Brodbeck, Brahms: Symphony No. 1

1997 / Ebook / 126 pages

***

Beethoven: The Next Generation.


Charlie Brooker, Unnovations

2002 / Ebook / 128 pages

****

A glans-watering opulence of morbid, inappropriate and deranged essentials.


Roald Dahl, The Gremlins

1943 / Ebook / 52 pages

***

Surprisingly non-jingoistic World War II fantasy with mismatched but interesting Disney concept art.