Shark Liver Oil

Uhhhrrrrr!! Uhhhhrrrrr!!!! Brrraaaains!!! Zombies are the in thing at the moment - and Shark Liver Oil is always happy to get it's slippery rubbery ass onto a bandwagon. So our next book is going to be Zombie Apocalypse - created by Stephen Jones. It's a rag tag journey through an end of the world scenario that every man and his dog seems to think they can survive these days.. This cast is an intr...

"Watch out Marco! It's a paper hat tearing, tarot reading, ash blowing ex-girlfriend and she's out for revenge!!" Um, spoiler alert. Welcome to the last in our series of podcasts about Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus. We've come too far to turn back now. Two starcrossed lovers seem destined to enter a magical duel, one circus owner seems destined for mental insanity and one young man from Mass...

"S" to the "Hark" to the "Liver" to the "Oil" are back with the third part of their discussion about Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus. It's time to talk about Intersections - where worlds collide and separate like snooker balls shooting around an ice rink. Matt and Dave ask the big questions that matter: What's happening to Chandresh? Will Marco and Celia last? and is Bailey ever going to do an...

The second part of Shark Liver Oil's podcast series about Erin Morgenestern's The Night Circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Matt and Dave take apart the second part of the book, called "Illumination", as the circus gets into t...

It's a new book for the Sharkliveroil team to get their teeth into. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern is a magical romantic novel set around the kind of circus that you'd actually want to visit (real magic, good food and a distinct lack of scary clowns and tortured animals). In part 1, we'll discuss how the circus comes together and the dark secret competition that lurks in the background. If y...

It's all kicking off as we enter the last part of our coverage of The Hobbit. Clue's in the name: there are armies involved. More than 4 of them. But we have much more than simple hackin' slashin' magickin': we've got some surprising lessons for life, some great characterisation, and our (new) traditional review of the reviews, where we find out who loved it, who hated it, and why. As ever, get in...

Part 2 of 3. This time we're going from Beorn's pad on the edge of Mirkwood aaaall the way to Smaug's cave of unimaginable pain, misery and wealth up in the Lonely Mountain. Get ready for drunken elves, useless fat dwarves and town planners who build fire-breathing-dragon-threatened-towns out of wood.

We're taking on JRR Tolkien's classic (the short one). Get ready to hear about smug wizards, cheery elves, combat-ineffective dwarves, Hertfordshire loving hobbits and, of course, the master of disaster, Gollum. We'll be travelling from Bilbo's dope crib in Hobbinton all the way to the Eagles's classy digs in the mountains as we follow the source material for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpec...

Matt and Dave take on one of the classics. It's Ernest Hemmingway's tale of a gnarled old seaman (don't laugh) who's on a mission to catch the biggest mothercrushing fish of all time. It's got shark attacks, harpooning, talking-to-yourself madness and the hero-worshipping of a wide eyed child. Sounds like it's going to be a cracker..