Matthew Spencer's Writing Showcase

Samples of Matthew Spencer's creative writing, for readers, publishers and producers.

Friday, 5 February 2021

Book Review of The Girl Who Died by Ragnar Jonasson

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A supernatural crime thriller with an Icelandic happy ending. * * * * Una, a schoolteacher, becomes an economic refugee from the mi...
Saturday, 23 January 2021

Book Review of Total Fallout by Alex Shaw

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This is a very competent sequel to the author’s novel “Total Blackout”. However, this time around the “superweapon” is much more credible an...
Monday, 18 January 2021

Book Review of “Light Perpetual” by Francis Spufford

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Either despite or because of the fact that Light Perpetual ignores a lot of given wisdom in the literary world and breaks many of the rules ...
Tuesday, 15 December 2020

Book review of We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins

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This is an interesting account of the fight against what the author calls the “Counterfactual Community”, which includes but is not limited ...
Saturday, 12 December 2020

Book Review of The Ends of the Earth by Abbie Greaves

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  This is a well-written novel with a great deal of understanding behind it. When you first start to read it, The Ends of the Earth puts you...
Tuesday, 17 November 2020

Lessons from the Holocaust about Forced Organ Donation

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Firstly, for those who believe that the CCP and the 610 Office are pretty nice folks who would never resort to forced organ donations from p...
Thursday, 12 November 2020

Book Review of Ask No Questions by Claire Allan

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  This is an excellent journalistic thriller, set in Derry with enough local colour to assure any middle-class liberal readers that they are...
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