It’s a truism long observed that humanity is often the biggest monster at any given table. No matter what the threat is or what destructive horror it might bring to bear, it always seems to be people who are the scary ingredients in any terror cocktail, whether it’s battling aliens, Continue Reading
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UPCOMING READS: Cover reveal for J. S. Dewes’ next novel Rubicon + trailer released for The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
There’s always a lot going on in the publishing world with books arriving on a happy tsunami of reading possibilities and those same books, if the author is lucky (and with the ravenous maw of streaming services these days, more are being offered adaptation deals), finding their way to a Continue Reading
Book review: With Love From Wish & Co by Minnie Darke
Life is so big and vast and full of people, things and events that we often forget that its rising and falling often rests on the smallest and most transitory of moments. Take the moment when seriously talented gift-giver, Marnie Fairchild, the protagonist of Minnie Darke’s latest emotionally resonant rom-com Continue Reading
Book review: Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell by Tobias Madden
The finding of love, true love is hard enough as it is without ratcheting up the degree of romantic difficulty by a thousand-fold but that’s precisely what our titular guy does in Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell, the second novel from up-and-coming YA writer Tobias Madden. How exactly does Noah, Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood
SNAPSHOTBang Bang Bodhisattva follows a trans woman hacker-for-hire who, in an attempt to make rent, teams up with a luddite P.I. to solve a murder she’s been falsely accused of. A unique hard-boiled detective / science fiction mash-up story unfolds, with a vibrant and diverse cast of characters. (image via Continue Reading
Book review: A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
We have been conditioned through countless inspiringly uplifting stories to think that getting over trauma is as simple as having your eyes opened to the true nature of your pain, realising how much better life will be without it, and deciding to do something about it. And then doing it! Continue Reading
Book review: Gemini Falls by Sean Wilson
Copy provided for review by NetGalley For a species that embraces the certainty of rules, regulations and dogma, we are also invariably in love with the idea of mystery, with the sense that for all the things we know about the world, there are a great many things we do Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: The Heartstopper Yearbook by Alice Oseman
SNAPSHOTNow an acclaimed live-action Netflix series! Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. This joyful trip into the LGBTQ+ world of Heartstopper is the perfect gift for anyone who loves the graphic novels or Netflix TV series – from Alice Oseman, bestselling author and winner of the Continue Reading
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas … Santa Maybe by Mary Jayne Baker (book review)
Santa Maybe was provided as a preview by NetGalley. As romantic times of the year go, surely nothing surpasses Christmas as the go-to season for falling headlong, madly, irrevocably and without regret into the welcoming arms of Cupid? Sure, you are supposed to do that on Valentine’s Day but it’s Continue Reading
Book review: Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan
Is it possible for something as confectedly light and escapist as a rom-com to have a sense of grounded, real world humanity? And even if it is, wouldn’t that break the gossamer-lovely romantic spell that every rom-com tries to weave in ways beguiling and heart-stirringly sweet? Well, while it’s not Continue Reading