Book Review – THE MIRACLE INSPECTOR by Helen Smith
Book Review – THE MIRACLE INSPECTOR by Helen Smith The Miracle Inspector Synopsis A darkly comic dystopian novel set in the near future. England has been partitioned and London is an oppressive place...
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View ArticleBook Review – AS THE LIGHTNING COMES by Svensk Oob
Book Review – AS THE LIGHTNING COMES by Svensk Oob As The Lightning Comes Synopsis This fast paced adventure is like The Bible Code meets The Chariots of the Gods. It weaves together the fascinating...
View ArticleBook Review – THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND by Jojo Moyes
Book Review – THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND by Jojo Moyes The Girl You Left Behind Synopsis The Girl You Left Behind is a hauntingly romantic and utterly irresistible new weepy from Jojo Moyes, author of...
View ArticleBook Review – WATERING HEAVEN by Peter Tieryas Liu
Book Review – WATERING HEAVEN by Peter Tieryas Liu Watering Heaven Synopsis What would you do if you found out your girlfriend laid an egg every time she had sex? Who would you be if you were invited...
View ArticleBook Review – SIGNIFICANCE by Lise Sonntag
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View ArticleBook Review – THE DARKEST LITTLE ROOM by Patrick Holland
Book Review – THE DARKEST LITTLE ROOM by Patrick Holland The Darkest Little Room Synopsis Patrick’s Holland’s haunting new novel arises from his experiences in Indochina. An atmospheric literary...
View ArticleBook Review – ANOTHER SUN by Timothy Williams
Book Review – ANOTHER SUN by Timothy Williams Another Sun Synopsis The sun-drenched Caribbean island of Guadeloupe is technically part of France, subject to French law and loyal to the French Republic....
View ArticleBook Review – SEDUCTION by M J Rose
Book Review – SEDUCTION by M J Rose Seduction Synopsis From the author of The Book of Lost Fragrances comes a haunting novel about a grieving woman who discovers the lost journal of novelist Victor...
View ArticleBook Review – THE ART OF LEAVING by Anna Stothard
Book Review – THE ART OF LEAVING by Anna Stothard The Art of Leaving Synopsis Leaving has always come naturally to Eva Elliott. The daughter of a pilot, she spent her childhood leaving schools and...
View ArticleBook Review – MR PENUMBRA’S 24 HOUR BOOKSTORE by Robin Sloan
Book Review – MR PENUMBRA’S 24 HOUR BOOKSTORE by Robin Sloan Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore Synopsis A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data...
View ArticleBook Review – HARLEQUIN’S COSTUME by Leonid Yuzefovich
Book Review – HARLEQUIN’S COSTUME by Leonid Yuzefovich Harlequin’s Costume Synopsis The year is 1871. Prince von Ahrensburg, Austria’s military attaché to St. Petersburg, has been killed in his own...
View ArticleBook Review – THE AMBER AMULET by Craig Silvey
Book Review – THE AMBER AMULET by Craig Silvey The Amber Amulet Synopsis Dear Sir/Ma’am, Please find enclosed this AMBER AMULET. That must sound unusual to a citizen, but you will have to trust me on...
View ArticleBook Review – THE START OF EVERYTHING by Emily Winslow
Book Review – THE START OF EVERYTHING by Emily Winslow The Start of Everything Synopsis In this stunning psychological thriller for readers of Tana French, Kate Atkinson, and Donna Tartt, Emily Winslow...
View ArticleTeaser Tuesday – DEAD LIONS by Mick Herron
Teaser Tuesday – DEAD LIONS by Mick Herron Dead Lions by Mick Herron is set for release on 7 May 2013 from Soho Press. This is Herron’s seventh novel, and the second of his titles to feature the ‘slow...
View ArticleBook Review – DEAD LIONS by Mick Herron
Book Review – DEAD LIONS by Mick Herron Dead Lions Synopsis London’s Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their failed careers. The “slow horses,” as they’re...
View ArticleBook Review – POET’S COTTAGE by Josephine Pennicott
Book Review – POET’S COTTAGE by Josephine Pennicott Poet’s Cottage Synopsis Poets had always lived there, the locals claimed. It was as if the house called to its own… When Sadie inherits Poet’s...
View ArticleBook Review – AND THE SOFT WIND BLOWS by Lance Umenhofer
And the Soft Wind Blows Synopsis Timmy Enosh is a peculiar, small man: fivethree, onehundred andfifteen pounds, and is a pharmacist in Ashton City, Tennessee. He finds himself at fortythreeyearsold as...
View ArticleBook Review – THE ROOK by Daniel O’Malley
The Rook Synopsis “The body you are wearing used to be mine.” So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no...
View ArticleBook Review – THE ENGLISHMAN AND THE BUTTERFLY by Ryan Asmussen
The Englishman and the Butterfly Synopsis Oxford fellow and John Milton expert, Professor Henry Fell suffers from panic attacks and a gnawing fear that what he doubtfully refers to as his existence is...
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