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...
10 April 2019
The First Person Narrator…
I used to hate books that were all I I I. Many seemed to be an excuse for lazy writing to me. And some still are, but I no longer turn away the second I see that the story is being told by an “I”, because they can be quite wonderful, in a good author’s hands.
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....
24 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...
23 February 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...
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...
20 January 2019
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
My book club chose this for the January meeting, and although I hadn’t even started it when the book club met...
13 January 2019
The Thing About Ghost Stories by Naomi Kritzer
Available online – Uncanny Magazine Issue 25 Why do we tell ghost stories, or read or listen to them? Maybe you...
3 January 2019
Eggshells by Caitriona Lally
I first noticed Eggshells when it arrived at work, with those hints about changelings and fairy tale echoes. But I didn’t...
2 December 2018
Exit strategy by Martha Wells
Murderbot diaries ; 4 I love these books. They just feel so warm and comforting, like a hug, despite the fact...
17 October 2018
The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin
The Inheritance trilogy ; book 3 Oh my god, you totally need to read this series. It is so awesome and...
4 October 2018
The broken kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
The Inheritance trilogy ; 2 I pretty much devoured this book. I just couldn’t stop reading once I started; it was...
26 August 2018
Circe by Madeline Miller
I have only read parts of The Odyssey; while I know the general story and many of the episodes I would...
25 August 2018
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