Bitter seeds by Ian Tregillis
Book one in the Milkweed Triptych In a remote part of Germany a doctor has been hard at work, he has had plenty of test subjects, the Great War left many...
16 July 2012
Sorry by Zoran Drvenkar
translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside. Seeing a couple break-up in public Kris goes over to apologise to the woman. He tells her that her ex is sorry for what...
5 July 2012
A lonely place to die dir. by Julian Gilbey
A group of five friends are holidaying in the Scottish Highlands, mountaineering and hiking and getting away from it all, when they discover a girl hidden in the woods. She is...
5 July 2012
The Black Opera by Mary Gentle
Conrad Scalese’s latest opera was a great success. Unfortunately the theatre in which it was performed has just been stuck by lightening. And since the composer and many of the performers...
23 June 2012
The Killables by Gemma Malley
Evil must be identified – Book one in the Killables trilogy In the future the only place of safety is The City. Ruled over by The Great Leader, with the system,...
16 June 2012
The Winter Prince by Elizabeth Wein
Book one in The Lion Hunters Although this book doesn’t really have any fatastical elements, I am still counting it towards this year’s Once Upon a Time challenge because it is...
3 June 2012
Neverwhere (group read part 2) by Neil Gaiman
I may have been late last week, but for part 2 I’m all caught up. This week’s read covers chapters 6 through 12, so there will be spoilers. Chapter 6 begins...
28 May 2012
Neverwhere (group read part 1) by Neil Gaiman
As is my norm for these group reads I am behind schedule. I should have been posting this on Monday, but here I am, typing away on a Thursday. Nevertheless, I...
24 May 2012
Code name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
reread 24th Sept 2018 for my bookclub. And on rereading I still really enjoyed this book. I still think that some of it is a little forced, and the first person...
10 May 2012
A perfect spy by John le Carré
Group read with the Metafilter Book Club Magnus Pym is a British spy. But after the death of his father he suddenly goes awol. His wife doesn’t know where he is,...
9 May 2012
Among Others by Jo Walton
Read for the Once Upon a Time VI challenge Many, many moons ago Carl posted his review of this book. And then and there I thought, that sounds interesting. But I...
4 May 2012
Timeless by Gail Carriger
An Alexia Tarabotti novel, The Parasol Protectorate: Book the Fifth Seeing as this it the fifth, and final, book in this series, knowing anything about the plot probably counts as spoilers...
24 March 2012
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