Doc by Mary Doria Russell
Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp are names that are linked together with gunfights and dust and the US West. In Doc Russell takes a look at their lives away from the...
23 March 2016
Creed dir. by Ryan Coogler
I find myself unable to really blurb this film. I mean, yeah, the bare bones of it are an orphan kid tries to find himself through boxing. Gets mentored by his...
18 January 2016
Hild by Nicola Griffith
Book 1 of The Light of the World trilogy. The world is always changing, but Britain in the seventh century was a time of huge upheaval in society. Christianity is beginning...
17 January 2016
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Lord Blackheart is, as you might suspect from the name, an evil villain. The biggest name in supervillainy! and one day a young girl appears outside his lair, she’s intent on...
25 November 2015
The Long way to a small angry planet by Becky Chambers
Wayfarers ; #1 Rosemary Harper is running away from her past. She wants a new life. A new start. So she heads into space, joining the crew of the Wayfarer, a...
15 November 2015
Black Wolves by Kate Elliott
book 1 in The Black Wolves trilogy. First up, the blurb-y bit, stolen from Goodreads because I cannot condense what this book is about any better than they did : An...
11 November 2015
Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a name that has floated around me for a while now. Often in discussions on Metafilter about racism and America and what it is to be black, or...
7 October 2015
Jane Eyre’s Sisters by Jody Gentian Bower
Don’t you just love it when you pick up a book at random thinking it looks vaguely interesting and then you devour it? That is what happened me with this book....
28 September 2015
The day we disappeared by Lucy Robinson
Another one from Mount TBR, recommended by Ellie of Curiosity killed the Bookworm. Kate is running away from her life. The stress of her life in Dublin has prompted some sort...
2 May 2015
Traitors’ Gate by Kate Elliott
Crossroads; book 3 So, this is book three, so to give a quick recap would be to give spoilers for the previous books, so I won’t. However, I will say that...
21 February 2015
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
First read in August 2012, reread Oct 2014 as part of this year’s RIP reading1 . Near the village of Thisby on the island of Skarmouth lives Puck Connolly her two...
29 October 2014
Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
Lester Ferris has seen a lot and done a lot in his life. A sergeant in the British Army he has more than served his country, and now he has been...
12 July 2014
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