Last ones left alive by Sarah Davis-Goff
Orpen is travelling alone across Ireland. She’s left the only home she ever knew and is looking for something. She’s left safety and security to risk her life out in the...
10 April 2019
Nought forever by Malorie Blackman
A long time ago I read the first three books in the Noughts and Crosses series by Blackman, and really, really enjoyed them. But for some reason I never got to...
2 April 2019
Normal people by Sally Rooney
What is a normal person? Is anyone normal? and if not, does that not mean that everyone is? I guess normality is often seen of as going along with what society...
31 March 2019
The ruin of kings by Jenn Lyons
A Chorus of Dragons ; book 1 Tor, who publish this book, have been pimping it big-style for quite a while. Since October last they’ve been releasing a couple of chapters...
24 March 2019
Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia : Book 2 (published order) or book 4 (chronological order) In this book the Pevensie children are heading back to school, but while seated waiting for trains...
17 March 2019
Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen
translated by Anna Helger I have no idea how I came across this book. Did someone recommend it to me? All I know is that it showed up as a library...
3 March 2019
Goddess by Kelly Gardiner
I came across a mention of Julie d’Aubugny when Oisin McGann retweeted a Quite Interesting fact about her Has anyone written a biography or fictionalised account, cause I'd so read that!...
23 February 2019
The land of mist by Arthur Conan Doyle
Professor Challenger ; 3 So, in the second Challenger book no reference whatsoever was made to dinosaurs or lost worlds so why I should have expected any reference in this to...
22 February 2019
Outside the gates by Molly Gloss
I’ve loved every Molly Gloss book I’ve read since I first encountered her work in The hearts of horses back in 2014. She just has this wonderful way of writing a...
1 February 2019
And the ocean was our sky by Patrick Ness
This is a beautiful book. Even if you have no interest in reading it I would recommend you pick it up and just flick through the art. Cai does a wonderful...
25 January 2019
The poison belt by Arthur Conan Doyle
Last year I read the first book in the Professor Challenger stories, The Lost World, where the land of the dinosaurs was discovered by Challenger and his team of explorers. A...
25 January 2019
So lucky by Nicola Griffith
Handheld Modern ; 2 I’ve really enjoyed everything I’ve read by Griffith, and she has written in a wide variety of genres, science, historical, and mystery, and that’s just the books...
20 January 2019
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