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Aliens 30 Aug 2012 | 02:17 pm
I did a long blog post about the 1979 Ridley Scott movie Alien on my personal blog a few weeks back (it should have appeared here on the Bee really, but I wrote it on my blog by mistake and then could...
Guest Post: Costly Kids 8 Jul 2012 | 03:49 pm
Thanks to Karen Dahl at Early Childhood Education, who has sent me this cheery infographic on the costs of raising a child: Created by: EarlyChildhoodEducation.com
Guest Post: Katzenjammer 4 Jun 2012 | 05:09 pm
By Bill Havercroft. Listening to one of Norwegian all-female band Katzenjammer's two studio albums with no prior knowledge, you would be forgiven for getting the wrong impression. Here's a bunch of s...
Paintwork 2 May 2012 | 05:41 am
If you'd asked me before I read Tim Maughan's debut collection Paintwork, I'd probably have said that 'Hip, cutting-edge cyberpunk with a techno-rave attitude' wasn't really my cup of tea. The observ...
A Boy and a Bear in a Boat 30 Apr 2012 | 05:33 am
This is probably the most original cover I've seen on a children's book in recent years, and, happily enough, it's wrapped around one of the most original children's books I've ever read. Dave Shelto...
Knit The City 5 Dec 2011 | 08:33 am
Knitting, as the old song has it*; what is it good for? Absolutely nothing! I was forced to knit as a small child at school. I embarked on a scarf (or was it a sock?) but after a few rows it went a...
Cyber Circus 4 Dec 2011 | 02:29 am
I don't suppose I would ever have read Kim Lakin-Smith's Cyber Circus if I hadn't met its lovely author at BristolCon this autumn, because I had seen it described here and there as 'Steampunk', and as...
Nelson 30 Nov 2011 | 07:10 am
Nelson is a new comics anthology from Blank Slate Books, in which 54 leading UK comics artists come together to tell one 250 page story, following a character called Nell Baker from her birth in 1968 ...
'The Recollection' 15 Nov 2011 | 02:22 am
By Philip Reeve I loved Science Fiction when I was a teenager, and sometimes since I've gone looking for books that would recapture that Sense o' Wonder from the stories I read then. Having been awa...
Agatha Parrot and the Floating Head 17 Sep 2011 | 05:20 am
The Bee has had a long old summer break, mostly because I couldn't find anything much I wanted to write about. But I can't not review Agatha Parrot and the Floating Head, can I? It's the first in a ...
