SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard
The Roman Empire still holds quite a sway in modern imaginations and culture. Gladiator and the tv show Rome are only two examples of its pop culture hold, and we still...
14 February 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
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes #1, available on gutenberg. In 1881, after returning from Afghanistan Doctor John Watson is in need of rest and recuperation. He is also in need of a place to...
16 January 2016
The Chimneys of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston
Tolly has returned to Green Knowe, his great-grandmother’s house, for the Easter break. But he is disappointed to discover that something is different. The painting of his previous playmates has been...
21 August 2015
The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
When you read that a series of books are “brilliant and heartbreaking and made of awesome sauce and everybody should read them but go into them blind or you won’t get...
10 August 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
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
A Leo Demidov story. When a young boy’s body is found on the train tracks in Moscow Leo Demidov’s job is to make sure everyone knows that it wasn’t murder. After...
30 March 2015
A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett
A week or two before Terry Pratchett died A slip of the keyboard and A blink of the screen arrived for me from amazon. I added them to the bookshelves, thinking...
21 March 2015
A serpent uncoiled by Simon Spurrier
Dan Shaper is a private investigator. He used to be a mob enforcer. He used to beat and batter and otherwise assault various people on behalf of his criminal bosses. But...
31 January 2015
Inverted world by Christopher Priest
Part of my Sci-Fi Experience 2015 as well as the Vintage Sci-Fi Not a Challenge Helward Mann was born, and grew up, in the city of Earth. Like all children he...
21 January 2015
Clouds of witness by Dorothy L Sayers
After solving the mystery of Whose Body Lord Peter Wimsey holidays in the wilds of Corsica, but, tiring of the rustic and wanting a bit of luxury he heads to Paris where he gets the shocking news that his brother, the Duke of Denver, has been arrested for murder. And the victim was Denis Cathcart, his sister’s fiancée. Wimsey heads for home straight away, and together with Inspector Parker he begins to investigate what actually happened.
21 December 2014
The stone book quartet by Alan Garner
The stone book quartet contains four short novels : The Stone Book Granny Reardun The Aimer Gate Tom Fobble’s Day The stories tell four different stories, set in four different times...
20 November 2014
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