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Continue reading →: Sonali is now in paperback!
I said I wouldn’t do it. I almost wish I hadn’t. But I did. After bringing out Sonali as an E-book and getting some lovely reviews from purchasers, I was plagued by demands to bring it out as a physical paperback. In the end I relented. With my collection of short stories coming out…
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Continue reading →: Book review: ‘Notes from a Small Island’ by Bill Bryson
This book was the second of Bryson’s I read after first enjoying his short book on Shakespeare. That understated little classic told me Bryson was an informative author and makes anything fascinating, but it was this book which confirmed that his wit and incisive observations were my kind of thing.…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Slowness by Milan Kundera
This short ‘novelette’ was my introduction to an author whose works I’ve wanted to read for some time but never got around to it. I have three books of his after a recommendation from a friend and this was the shortest so…what could go wrong? I thought. The book promised…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Reading “The Fountainhead” might just be one of the most contradictory experiences of my life. It has been fascinating, annoying, illuminating, depressing and uplifting all at the same time and will be one of the few books I’ve read in over 30 years which I can genuinely say will have…
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Continue reading →: Sonali is here (again!)
It has been a steep learning curve but the book I first published in 2014 is now out again in E-book format on all major Amazon sites. The book has a brand new design suited to phones, kindles and other electronic readers with text and pictures on the same page, unlike the…
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Continue reading →: Theatre Review: Maya’s Honeymoons by Jesmin Chowdhury
This review was first published in the New Age newspaper in Bangladesh, 2nd December 2016. Click here to see the original. Theatre Review: Maya’s Honeymoons – Sunday 20th November, Brady Arts Centre, London By Ken Powell It is no easy ask to present a play tackling a subject a whole…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: What We’ll Do For Blood by C.L. Mannarino
This is the first book in the ‘Almost Human’ series by C.L, Mannarino. It is pitched as a Young Adult Paranormal novel and follows a familiar theme of vampires living among us. There are some issues which definitely need addressing. There is considerable swearing – the ‘F’ word in particular…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
This is the second Jeeves and Wooster book I’ve read this year and I have to say my taste for Wodehouse has not diminished. Not one bit. Sometimes, with the world the way it is, one needs to escape and enter a world which is very different to one’s own.…
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Continue reading →: Theatre Review: Bangla Brummies by Murad Khan
Originally published on Kenthinksaloud ‘Bangla Brummies’ is a comedy written by Bangladeshi theatre activist and writer, Murad Khan. The action is set in Birmingham but alternates between life in the 1970s and the present, following the stories of two Muslim Bangladeshi bachelor friends, Malik and Hisham, as they marry and…
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