This is a good book, but I struggled to comprehend why it has been lavished with such immense praise – …
Rhesus Positive, a book review
Gavin Featherstone has been an international hockey coach. A recent inheritance led him on an intriguing journey investigating family histories …
Dead Ground, a book review
A variety of fairly standard characters dance around an increasingly high level murder investigation in this very readable crime mystery. …
Cockerings – a book review
Stevyn Colgan’s Cockerings is the next (?last) instalment of his South Herewardshire series of comic novels. When the circus comes …
Death in the Levant
A book review of The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf, translated by Frank Wynne. In short, I loved this book. 5 …
The Last Day – 2089’s Inverse
As a long time lover of Private Eye and QI, it came a bit out of left field to hear …
Sunshine Superhighway
I’m not normally a big fan of short stories, so I wasn’t sure about how I was going to like …
An interminable history of 7 killings
As the title of this book review will suggest, I didn’t really get on well with this book. The story …
Strange Hotel
Book review – Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride This is a slim novel. But the slender prose is delectable. The …
Competitions
Beat back 2021 – Win a paperback! To bring some cheer to the struggle that is 2020, I’m offering a …