Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Lord Blackheart is, as you might suspect from the name, an evil villain. The biggest name in supervillainy! and one day a young girl appears outside his lair, she’s intent on...
25 November 2015
The Long way to a small angry planet by Becky Chambers
Wayfarers ; #1 Rosemary Harper is running away from her past. She wants a new life. A new start. So she heads into space, joining the crew of the Wayfarer, a...
15 November 2015
Black Wolves by Kate Elliott
book 1 in The Black Wolves trilogy. First up, the blurb-y bit, stolen from Goodreads because I cannot condense what this book is about any better than they did : An...
11 November 2015
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge would not be regarded by most people as a nice woman. She is stern. Unforgiving. The scariest teacher in the local high school. Her husband is almost her exact...
9 November 2015
Dragon’s Blood by Jane Yolen
Book 1 in The Pit Dragon trilogy Austar IV started life as a prison planet, over the generations and years it has evolved into a deeply segregated, almost feudal society. Jakkin...
8 November 2015
To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
I would guess that almost everyone reading this blog is familiar, to some degree, with Harper Lee’s To kill a mockingbird. The classic story of a good man (Atticus) in a...
4 November 2015
Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen
The Shadow #1 Nettie Lonesome was found as a baby and taken in by the Lonesome family. Which is to say used by Mam & Pap Lonesome to work and work...
2 November 2015
The house of shattered wings by Aliette de Bodard
Dominion of the Fallen ; 1 Once one of the most powerful Houses in Paris Silverspires is in decline. Its founder, Morningstar, is missing. Selene, his last pupil, has taken over....
26 October 2015
Anna Who by Bernadette Leach
So last week on twitter I spotted this tweet : Anna Who for me – and I know @oneilllo is a fan too! I'd love to see some of the Attic...
10 October 2015
Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a name that has floated around me for a while now. Often in discussions on Metafilter about racism and America and what it is to be black, or...
7 October 2015
The rest of us just live here by Patrick Ness
Mikey is an ordinary teenager. About to finish at high school, worried and excited about the changes college will bring. He isn’t like the indie kids, you know, the ones with...
3 October 2015