Thorn by Intisar Khanani
A retelling of The Goose Girl story. Princess Alyrra has not has a happy life. Growing up in fear of her brother and trying to stay on her mother’s good side....
24 November 2013
The Bone Knife by Intisar Khanani
You can get this one free if you’d like to try it. See Khanani’s site for links The Bone Knife is a short story, and to me it felt much more...
17 November 2013
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
Wake of the Bloody Angel by Alex Bledsoe
Book 4 in the Eddie LaCrosse series. Eddie LaCrosse has a new client, and it is a surprising one to him. Angelina, the innkeeper and an old friend, suddenly reveals that...
9 November 2013
The Abominable by Dan Simmons
My final read for this year’s RIP In June of 1924 reports from Everest reveal that George Mallory and Andrew Irvine have vanished, missing, presumed dead in their attempt to reach...
3 November 2013
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Before Ernest Hemmingway was the famous author of hie time he was a struggling writer, trying to figure out how to make ends meet, trying to find his voice. In the...
20 October 2013
Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper
Little Hawk is about to leave his family and village to go into the woods and live alone for three months, a ritual that will see him in his way to...
9 October 2013
The man in the picture by Susan Hill
Part of my RIP VIII reading. Oliver is visiting his old Oxford tutor when Theo begins to tell him a story. It is a cold January night, perfect for huddling round...
19 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
Wolf at the door by J. Damask
The Jan Xu Adventures : book 1 Jan Xu’s sister is coming home. It should be a reason to celebrate. They were very close when they were younger, but then Marianne...
25 August 2013
Galatea by Madeline Miller
Thanks to Andi’s review of The Song of Achilles I learned that Miller had a new short story out. So off I popped to by it. Based on the Greek myth...
23 August 2013
Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
It is 1944 and American pilot Rose Justice is working in England, she has joined the ATA and is hard at work transporting planes for the RAF, and occasionally flying important...
13 August 2013
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