by Ian Andrew | Aug 11, 2018 | Books, Fiction, Reviews, United Kingdom
The latest book review from Views From The Ridge. Mark Fryday is a UK (Cambridgeshire) based author who originally hailed from the North East of England. His first novel, Collapse of the Wave (Tales from The Red Lion Book 1) was, at first glance, a simple story of a...
by Ian Andrew | Feb 20, 2018 | Music Albums, Non-Fiction, Northern Ireland, SLF, Stiff Little Fingers
On 29 March 2017 Stiff Little Fingers arrived in Perth, Western Australia to play their first, stand-alone gig in the town. On the same evening, I had to fly out to the UK in preparation for the London Book Fair. I was ‘gutted’… I’d been a fan...
by Ian Andrew | Jan 21, 2017 | Australia, Books, Fiction, Reviews, United Kingdom
Aliya Whiteley is an award-winning British author with an extensive catalogue of novels, short stories and non-fiction articles to her name. As well as being incredibly prolific, she was also kind enough to read over the early chapters of my own first novel and give...
by Ian Andrew | Jan 17, 2017 | Australia, Books, Fiction, Reviews
Alan Baxter is a British-Australian author who writes dark fantasy, horror and sci-fi. His collection of short stories, Crow Shine, is light on the sci-fi but certainly allows his skills in writing dark macabre to come to the fore. From clawing death, to angelic...
by Ian Andrew | Jan 10, 2017 | Australia, Books, Fiction, Reviews
by Ian Andrew | Nov 29, 2016 | Australia, Books, Fiction, Reviews
I’ve just finished the most peculiar of books.It was mesmerising, deep, dark, twisted. A brilliant crime novel and one that was recognised with the Ned Kelly Award for best debut in 2014 from the Australian Crime Writers Association. So it shouldn’t have...
