At one key point in the sublime but emotionally honest loveliness that is Annie Stanley All At Sea, the eminently assured novel of Sue Teddern, our far-too-hard-in-herself protagonist sagely observes that there are simply some chapters in your life to which you cannot add a definitive “The End”. Given our Continue Reading
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Book review: Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson
There is, they say, nothing new under the sun. Hyperbolic spin artists may beg to disagreed, seeking to convince that their new x, y or z is totally, excitingly, thrillingly new, but the truth is pretty much everything has been done before by someone somewhere, or usually some when, and Continue Reading
Book review: An A-List For Death by Pamela Hart
In an ordinary everyday world, there are very few people who would say murder is a reassuringly cosy thing. It’s dark, it’s violent and terrible and not the sort of thing you usually want to curl on the couch and read about; though, of course, those who listen to true Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: Fractal Noise (a Fractalverse novel) by Christopher Paolini
SNAPSHOTJuly 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII:a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and Continue Reading
Book review: The Mermaid’s Tale by Lee Wei-Jing
Too often in life we are caught in that precariously unfulfilling place between vaulting hopes and dreams (which we all have whether we admit to them or not) and grimly unadorned reality where disappointment is an all too common presence. While many of us find a way out from this Continue Reading
Book review: Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
Ah, the glitz and glamour of Hollywood! This relatively small piece of real estate in southern California has risen from the early days of silent pictures in the first decades of the twentieth century to have a cultural clout that continues for better or ill to bestride the globe. But Continue Reading
#Halloween book review: Hide by Kiersten White
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
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