So a very happy Publication Day to Lucy Atkins for “The Missing One” a book I was lucky enough to read early – review to follow but first I tracked Lucy down to ask her some questions and here is what she had to tell me. More information is available… Continue reading
Thank you to the author and publisher for the advance reading copy. Ok, so I reviewed this the other day but I thought I would give it front page status today so that if you missed my review before you can have a catch up – from tomorrow you will… Continue reading
Thank you to the author and publisher for the review copy via netgalley. Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist — and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war,… Continue reading
Hunted. Hounded. Haunted. She is the most important person in the world. She is The Key Journalist Liv Adamsen has escaped from the highly secretive Citadel at the heart of the ancient city of Ruin and now lies in isolation, staring at hospital walls as blank as her memory. Despite… Continue reading
Thank you to Kate at Harper Collins for randomly sending me this terrific book. Forty years after a devastating thermonuclear Armageddon, mankind has been reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. In a style that’s part Hemingway and part Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, The Wasteland Saga chronicles the… Continue reading
So I have not read episodic books since I avidly awaited each new instalment of “The Green Mile” by Stephen King many years ago now, but when I was offered the chance to have a look at a new series that is going to be released over the course… Continue reading
So here we are, 2014 and after the year I had in 2013 I was very pleased to see the back of it. The GOOD thing about 2013 was the many wonderful books I read. I’m starting off this year as I start every year – with a Stephen… Continue reading
So to finish off this week (I am away from tomorrow until the 29th so although you may see one or two new reviews go up this is my last blogpost before Christmas) here are a few more books you might consider as Christmas gifts for loved ones. … Continue reading
It is the sweltering summer of 1997, and Karen is a straight-laced, straight-A university student. When she meets the impossibly glamorous Biba, a bohemian orphan who lives in a crumbling old mansion in Highgate with her enigmatic brother Rex, she is soon drawn into their world — but something terrible… Continue reading
So we all know by now about me and this book so I won’t go on anymore (well maybe a bit), although my mission to ensure that everyone on the planet reads it is still ongoing… As far as great Christmas presents goes you probably can’t go wrong with this… Continue reading
