Some kind of fairy tale by Graham Joyce
Twenty years ago Tara Martin went missing. She simply went out one day and never came home. Her boyfriend at the time was an obvious suspect. They had rowed before she...
12 April 2014
Wolves by Simon Ings
I totally agree with that old saying “never judge a book by its cover”, but more often than not it is the cover that piques your interest. If it didn’t all...
22 February 2014
Michael Rosen’s Sad Book by Michael Rosen
illustrated by Quentin Blake This book opens with a picture of the author, smiling. The words tell a different story. They tell us that this is a picture of Michael Rosen...
26 January 2014
Downturn Abbey by Paul Howard
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly started life in The Sunday Times and currently stars in The Irish Times, he is a fictional wealthy southside Dubliner. It is a satire of a certain aspect of...
23 January 2014
The treachery of beautiful things by Ruth Frances Long
Seven years ago Jenny and her brother were walking home one evening when the trees moved, and took her brother. Ever since she has had to deal with that fact, a...
11 January 2014
Parasite by Mira Grant
Book 1 in the Parasitology series. Sally Mitchell was in a car crash, suffered brain damage, but just as her family were about to agree to switching off the life-support she...
16 November 2013
More Than This by Patrick Ness
Seth is drowning. He isn’t going to survive, there is no out for him. He drowns. But death is not the end, he wakes up in his childhood home in England....
11 November 2013
The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
Part of my RIP VIII reading. Book 2 in The Raven Cycle In the first book we learned that Blue Sargent is the only non-psychic in a family full of clairvoyants,...
5 October 2013
Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
Part of this year’s RIP reading The first recorded mention of lycans was in the 7th century. The result of a prion disease, similar to CJD or mad cow disease, spread...
1 October 2013
White House Down dir. by Roland Emmerich
Comparisons with Olympus has falle are pretty inescapable. Both feature attacks on the White House, with one armed agent saving the president. Both also feature a heap of blowing stuff up....
15 September 2013
Italian shoes by Henning Mankell
Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson Fredrik Welin, our first person narrator, lives alone on an island he inherited from his grandparents. His only regular visitor is the postman, Jansson,...
12 September 2013
An uncertain place by Fred Vargas
Translated by Sian Reynolds. An Inspector Adamsberg novel #6 Adamsberg is in England at a European policing convention, discussing immigration and the control thereof. Well, that’s what everyone else is discussing,...
7 September 2013
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