UK Publishing Date: 3rd Sept 2015. 320 pages. The Blackthorn Key is a great book aimed at tweens and teens but deserves a much wider readership. Christopher is an apprentice apothecary in 1665 London. When his master is suddenly murdered it falls to Christopher and his young friend Tom to […]
UK Publication Date: 22 Oct 2015. 270 pages. In recent years the Northern Europeans seem to have become the masters of the murder suspense genre. Authors like Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson have become synonymous with the dark and brooding crime fiction of Scandi Noir but you can’t rule out […]
UK Publishing Date: 17th Sept 2015. 400 pages. When I finished reading this book I jotted down a few thoughts on a page and realised that they were almost exclusively negative. So I had a quite scan over some other reviews and I was quite surprised that so many people […]
UK Publishing Date: 13 Aug 2015. 272 Pages Its probably a bit quirky but I find short stories fundamentally unfulfilling. You just start to get under the skin of a character and then the story ends. Next you are launched into a different setting and a new bunch of characters. […]
UK Publishing Date: 10 Sept 2015. 352 pages. Dark Room is the first Tom Becker novel that I’ve picked up. I didn’t have very high hopes when I started reading it. A teenage serial killer, with a love of photography? It had the capacity to be truly awful. Instead it […]
UK Publishing Date: 1st Oct 2015. 400 pages. Livvy is married to Adam. They’ve been together for about twenty years and have a son. Joe is a good kid. He has Asperger’s and has sometimes been difficult to manage over the years. Livvy has just discovered that Adam has been […]
UK Publishing Date: 6 Aug 2015. 336 pages. Historical fiction really isn’t my thing. I’d much rather read a factual account of real events that have taken place. So when I started reading this book I had no idea what it was about. I was quite surprised when I realised […]
UK Publishing Date: 22 Oct 2015. 736 pages. I can honestly say that it took me the best part of a month to get through this book. “A Little Life” is a deceptive title for a tome that weighs in at over 730 pages and is one of the most […]
UK Publishing Date: 5 Jan 2016. 288 Pages. Marketed as a YA book “This Is Where It Ends” is a powerful debut from Marieke Nijkamp. Set in a high school in the town of Opportunity, Albama, the graduating class are all thinking about where life will take when school ends. […]
UK Publication Date: 27 Oct 2015. 496 pages. I rarely read period dramas, unless they were written in the time that they are set. Think Wilkie Collins or Dickens and you are along the right lines. Modern day versions of these books tend towards the melodramatic and I normally find […]
