Just popping in to say, I’m over at Shiny New Books today with my review of The Future of Fraud by Becky Holmes from Melville House’s ‘Futures’ series. This is the latest in a series of punchy little paperbacks on topics of import and very worth a read. Full review HERE I’ve reviewed three of Read More
Month: April 2026
Paradise by Ben Tufnell – blog tour
Source: Review copy from the publisher, Influx Press for the Random Things blog tour – thank you. As thrillers go, I’m very fond of gangland novels, and within that crime thriller sub-genre is a sub-sub-genre of ‘hide out’ tales – be it enforced or by going AWOL. I’m thinking of novels like the rather excellent Read More
What I was reading (and doing) 10 years ago – in April 2016
This is the second in a series of archive posts (first here) in which I look back at my reading lists to pick a few highlights from ten years ago. I won’t cover every month, just ones where I had notable reads or bookish events. Links lead to my original posts as appropriate. I went Read More
Marnie by Winston Graham for the #1961Club
Source: Own shelves. 1961 is the year for this month’s bi-annual reading club, hosted by Simon and Kaggsy, and looking through the wiki page for 1961 in LIterature, I saw that there was tons of SF on the list that I had read when much younger (L Sprague de Camp, Harry Harrison and Robert Heinlein Read More
Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash
Source: Review copy from the publisher, Transworld – thank you. It’s about time that I actually wrote some reviews, but this is a good place to start because, wow! I loved this book. It’s a comic novel about a dysfunctional but quirky family, yet manages to explore family dynamics and sibling rivalry seriously underneath, throwing Read More
Top Ten Tuesday: Books set in places on my bucket list
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. See the Mr Linky for others entries. This week, the topic is Books set in places on my bucket list. I’ve chosen ones that I’ve crossed off and actually been to… This Read More
Six Degrees of Separation: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
It’s time for the super monthly tag Six Degrees of Separation, which is hosted by Kate at Booksaremyfavouriteandbest, Six Degrees of Separation #6degrees picks a starting book for participants to go wherever it takes them in six more steps. Links to my reviews are in the titles of the books chosen. The starter book this month is: The Read More
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
I’ve read a fair amount of pandemic fiction now. One stand out was (of course) Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, which elegantly explores a flu pandemic and the immediate aftermath on the survivors, with a good dose of Shakespeare on the side. The other stand out has been Phase Six by Jim Shepard, Read More
