The high mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
This book. I just. Okay, to start with I wasn’t sure I was even going to finish it. Tomás and his fridged wife and his walking backwards. And his troubles with...
25 November 2017
The Ice by Laline Paull
It is the near future and the ice caps are melting. The Arctic sea ice is gone, as are almost all the polar bears. But not the tourists. They come in...
25 November 2017
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
DC Icons ; 1 Pretty much everyone is familiar with Wonder Woman, right? Diana Princess of Themyscira, amazon and superhero. Well, count me as one of those who is familiar with...
4 November 2017
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
I started reading this book because my book club chose it. I don’t think that I would have picked it up based on the blurb. And at first I thought that...
22 October 2017
The Selkie’s mate by Nicola Davies
Shadows and Light ; 3 That traditional selkie story, where the fisherman finds a selkie, hides the skin and gains a wife have always been a bit ick. I mean, its...
13 October 2017
Triangle by Mac Barnett
One of the great things about working in a library is that you come across books that you usually would have no reason to really look at. Like children’s books, especially...
13 October 2017
Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
The Amazing Telemachus Family were about to reach dizzying heights of fame and fortune in the 1970s, when a live television magic display went all wrong and they were revealed as...
13 October 2017
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
Emma Bull is an author I have been meaning to read for a long time. She was one of the first to start the whole sub-genre of urban fantasy. And although...
2 October 2017
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
Discworld series ; #7 I think this might be the first Terry Pratchett book I ever read. I certainly recall reading it, but I don’t think I’ve ever reread it, and...
1 October 2017
The Power by Naomi Alderman
First rec’d by Abigail Nussbaum – Strange Horizons When I first read about The Power I was both intrigued and a little put-off by the premise; women suddenly develop the ability...
24 September 2017
The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein
Back in 2012 I read and loved Code Name Verity, so when I saw that this was a prequel to that story I had to read it. But if you have...
9 September 2017
H is for hawk by Helen Macdonald
I added this book to my TBR pile way back when it won the Costa Book of the Year award. That was in January 2015, so it has taken me more...
2 September 2017
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