Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Machineries of Empire ; book 1 …the battle of wits between a disgraced captain and her undead advisor, a brilliant tactician and mass murderer who might be out to kill her...
10 February 2017
Holding by Graham Norton
The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama; and yet its inhabitants are troubled. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn’t always been this overweight; mother of two Brid Riordan hasn’t always...
31 January 2017
The Virtual Swallows of Hog Island by Julianna Baggott
In “The Virtual Swallows of Hog Island,” a programmer finds himself working for the self-proclaimed “Bad-Boy of Virtual-Reality Therapy.” While his boss is breaking new ground and breaking the rules and...
25 January 2017
The Moment by Lawrence M. Schoen
In 2010 “The Moment” was nominated for the Hugo Award in the Best Short Story category. Over the course of millions of years, a wide range of alien intelligences visit the...
25 January 2017
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Discworld #1 Many years ago I used to babysit most weekends for a woman who had an extensive Terry Pratchett collection. At first I was not impressed, the cover images just...
22 January 2017
TBR – January 2017
So far in 2017 I’ve added 4 books to my TBR pile : Dallaire, Roméo – Waiting For First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD – rec’d by Maclean’s Review (via...
15 January 2017
The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein
The Steerswoman Series : 1 From Mount TBR – rec’d by Renay Steerswomen, and a very few Steersmen, are members of an order dedicated to discovering and disseminating knowledge. Although they...
14 January 2017
The History Thieves : secrets, lies and the shaping of a modern nation by Ian Cobain
In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed and created offences of ‘disclosure of information’ and ‘breach of official trust’. It limited and monitored what the public could, and should,...
7 January 2017
Mount TBR – 2016 recap edition
So, how did I get on with Mount TBR in 2016? I added a whole heap of books, this is both a good thing and a bad thing. Overall I added...
23 December 2016
Maybe a fox by Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt
Into thin air, Sylvie goes missing, and as Jules stumbles in grief, a fox cub is born. A shadow fox, spirit and animal in one. From the minute the cub opens...
20 December 2016
Mount TBR – December 2016
Since last month I’ve added the following books to Mount TBR : Weatherford, Jack – Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World’s Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom...
19 December 2016
Tony and Susan by Austin Wright
Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer. Now, she’s enduring middle class suburbia as a doctor’s wife, when out of the blue she receives...
10 December 2016