The South by Colm Tóibín
ISBN: 0330323334 In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland and her family for Barcelona, determined to become a painter. There she meets...
15 May 2016
Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell
Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously...
10 May 2016
Cold Steel by Kate Elliott
Book three in the Spiritwalker trilogy. Short, totally spoiler-free review is “aahhhhh, read it!” but three words may not be enough...
1 May 2016
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
The Clockwork Century ; book 1 Sixteen years ago the city of Seattle was turned into a virtually uninhabitable wasteland. In...
22 April 2016
Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
On the 31st March 2016 Imre Kertész died. I hadn’t heard of him before I saw the post on Metafilter marking...
12 April 2016
The Iron Ghost by Jen Williams
The Copper Cat trilogy # 2 The Iron Ghost is an entertaining mixture of dragon’s daughters, demons, mages, and evil, and...
8 April 2016
The fifth heart by Dan Simmons
In 1893 Henry James encounters Sherlock Holmes in Paris. But Holmes is reported to be dead, killed in a battle with...
28 March 2016
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp are names that are linked together with gunfights and dust and the US West. In Doc...
23 March 2016
Mount TBR – March
So, three months into 2016 and I’ve so far added 14 books to Mount TBR, and I’ve read 2. Two… Oh...
18 March 2016
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Grieving the loss of his mother Peter discovered an orphaned fox cub and took him in. Ever since then he and...
17 March 2016
Ex-heroes by Peter Clines
Book one in the Ex-heroes series Stealth. Gorgon. Regenerator. Cerberus. Zzzap. The Mighty Dragon. They were heroes, using their superhuman abilities...
14 March 2016
A fabulous creature by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
James Fielding was not at all happy when his parents decided to spend the summer in “the wilderness”, his plans had...
6 March 2016