Spent the best part of the day tidying away magazines.
Apple Smart Battery Case
January 20, 2019
Released this week, this case is optimised for iOS and features wireless charging and two internal batteries. It will work with an iPhone X but the software is not set up for this particular phone and the speaker grill will also not align correctly. The price is £129. There are cases available for the XS Max, XS and XR models in either Black or White. You can see what's available here.
Pythonista
January 19, 2019
Incredible iOS application I only recently discovered. Now you can write Python anywhere. The price is £9.99 - very reasonable for what's inside. Head over to the iOS store for more details.
Thomas Harris - Cari Mora
January 14, 2019
Announced back in October 2018, this is the author's first novel in thirteen years.
Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men.
Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to the iron whim of ICE. She works at many jobs to survive. Beautiful, marked by war, Cari catches the eye of Hans-Peter as he closes in on the treasure. But Cari Mora has surprising skills, and her will to survive has been tested before.
Monsters lurk in the crevices between male desire and female survival. No other writer in the last century has conjured those monsters with more terrifying brilliance than Thomas Harris. Cari Mora, his sixth novel, is the long-awaited return of an American master.
Available to pre-order on Amazon.
HMV 1985
December 29, 2018
HMV photographed during the mid-1980s. I used to shop there. That was a long, long time ago.