The Marked by Lilith Saintcrow
Awful things happen. Sometimes you’re left alive, but it leaves a Mark. They aren’t tattoos, and they express your hidden powers—and your hidden desires. They grow as you use them. And...
19 September 2016
The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
rec’d by Wobuffat (Metafilter) based on Michael Chabon’s review Acclaimed as one of the best historical novels ever written, this engaging saga of Viking adventure in 10th century northern Europe has...
18 September 2016
Mount TBR update
The continuing saga of all the books that shall one day fall on me and end all this blogging. Since my last update I’ve been added : Mieville, China – The...
15 September 2016
The heart goes last by Margaret Atwood
Living in their car, surviving on tips, Charmaine and Stan are in a desperate state. So, when they see an advertisement for Consilience, a ‘social experiment’ offering stable jobs and a...
26 August 2016
The tropic of serpents : a memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
The memoirs of Lady Trent : book 2 Three years after her fateful journeys through the forbidding mountains of Vystrana, Mrs. Camherst defies family and convention to embark on an expedition...
20 August 2016
A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab
Shades of Magic : Book 1 Group read with Fantasy Favourites. Kell is one of the last Antari, a rare magician who can travel between parallel worlds: hopping from Grey London...
6 August 2016
A Girl is a Half-formed thing by Eimear McBride
Eimear McBride’s debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman’s relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour....
29 July 2016
Mount TBR – July
Yes, it is that time again. Well, it is actually a few days after my reminder went off, but being utterly devoted to rigid timescales is sooo not my style. This...
20 July 2016
The Wolf in the Attic by Paul Kearney
Anna Francis lives in a tall old house with her father and her doll Penelope. She is a refugee, a piece of flotsam washed up in England by the tides of...
13 July 2016
The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton
Thessaly ; book 2 From acclaimed, award-winning author Jo Walton: Philosopher Kings, a tale of gods and humans, and the surprising things they have to learn from one another. Twenty years...
13 July 2016
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Days before his release from prison, Shadow’s wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday,...
5 July 2016