With the film adaptation of the book due out on 15th April, there has been a resurgence of interest in Shamim Sarif’s Despite the Falling Snow. I can see why. B... Read More...
I was confused with Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic to the Rescue at the outset. I expected to be because I’ve never read any of the previous Shopaholic books; I k... Read More...
Toby Clements’ Kingmaker: Broken Faith picks up the story of Katherine and Thomas in 1463, two years after the epic last battle in Winter Pilgrims. Katherine is... Read More...
Kim Newman’s The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School has a great opening for a novel and a great idea for a plot. When Amy’s mother finds her asleep on the ceil... Read More...
Released: August 2015
This is the fifth Discworld novel featuring the young witch Tiffany Aching. Tiffany has always had to meet a few challenges in her stor... Read More...
Released: October 2015
At the onset of Spill Simmer Falter Wither it’s not clear why Ray adopts the dog, One Eye. As the story progresses through the first s... Read More...
Released: August 2015
Julia Pierpont's Among the Ten Thousand Things is one of those novels that begins with quite a bombshell. When artist Jack ends his aff... Read More...
Released: July 2015
Zack Lightman is busy trying to daydream his way through a Maths class when he thinks he spots a flying spaceship hovering just outside t... Read More...
Released: June 2015
This is the fourth collaboration from Messrs Pratchett and Baxter in the Long World series. If you haven’t read the previous books, as I ... Read More...
Released: April 2015
Many stories have good opening lines. It’s all part of the plan to draw you in. When a novel has a curious title like this one those fir... Read More...
Released: February 2015
On a bitterly cold morning in 1460 Thomas, Katherine and Alice leave the relative safety of their neighbouring priories to do their c... Read More...
Released: December 2014
I should start this review by saying I don’t usually read horror stories. In fact I haven’t read one for about ten years but the New ... Read More...
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