UK Publishing Date: 15 Oct 2015. 300 pages. The publishers blurb for this book says that it is a โgripping psychological thriller for fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Trainโ and while that might be true to an extent, I think that I actually preferred this book […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
UK Publishing Date: 2 July 2015. 256 pages. Fire Colour One is a rare book. Itโs one of those Young Adult books that have the ability to touch anyone of any age that reads it. My only frustration with it was that it wasn’t long enough! Iris lives in America […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
UK Publishing Date: 13 Aug 2015. 432 pages. A beautiful book that seems to be marketed as a Young Adult story but “What Milo Saw” has a message for every age group. Milo has a degenerative sight problem (retinitis pigmentosa) so he sees very little. His tunnel vision leaves him […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
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 canโt rule out […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
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 […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
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. […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes