(Mostly) Book Reviews

Its not often a debut novel is as well written as this. I found myself utterly riveted from very early in the book, and when I w...

A fantastic premise enticed me to order this from NetGalley for my first foray into the world of Jo Spain, which I was assured w...

An all time classic, and for good reason. I'm very reticent about reading the so called masterpieces, the books that fill li...

A gritty, ultra realistc portrayal of America in the Great Depression. An absolute masterpiece of the human condition told throu...

Set in 1950s rural Ireland, Snow follows a murder investigation in one of the remaining Houses of the era. Ballyglass House, ful...

Set in the grim north of England, this book follows the daily grind of Daniel, a man who's milk round is interuppted only by...

The newest in the long series of Jack Reacher novels. This time with a difference. Lee Child, the author of the previous 25 book...

  Neil Gaiman is one of those authors whose books have always been on my radar, but always kind of at the periphery for some unknown reason....

Book 3 of the superlative Cemetery of Forgotten Books. This one focuses on one of the secondary characters of the first book, Fe...

A supernatural mystery set on a ship sailing from Batavia to Amsterdam, with a Sherlock Holmes type detective on board. What...

The follow-up to The Shadow of the Wind, this is the second book of the spanish author's masterful Cemetery of Forgotten Boo...

This book has one of the most interesting concepts in a book I've come across in a long time. That there is something betw...

 A really wonderful book. Brimmed full of life and vitality, with characters who jumped off the page and into your living room. ...

I'm not sure what else needs to be said about this book. But I will add my two cents, for what its worth. This is a book ab...

The follow-up to  The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair  is a prequel of sorts, a tale of the same narrator's childhood. ...

A really great read, a little insight into the man who has turned Liverpool's fortunes around. Seamlessly meandering back an...

Book 14 in the Detective Roy Grace series. The first one I've read. Maybe this impacted my enjoyment, I don't know, but ...

That ending. Wow. So many questions, like where do we go from there, and why don't I have the next one already!? So, as wi...

 This has clearly been meticulously researched, paced and plotted. Deviations from the historical record were small but necessar...

Having recently read Stephen Fry's  Mythos & Heroes  books on Greek Mythology I had been looking for movies and TV shows...

This was not a good book.  In terms of story which it was ok. Just ok, but nothing unique or groundbreaking. A tale of revenge, ...

I watched this religiously when it first came out, maybe the first 6 or 7 seasons, then kinda drifted out of it for a while. Not...

 This is the first adult fantasy novel by the writer of the massively successful Artemis Fowl series of children's/young adu...

I feel Mythos is the stronger of the two, the characters detailed within are better and more interesting.  Dealing with, as Fry ...

Read this one on the back of just finishing the first in the series. Travis McGee is a compelling, if not very likable character...

 Set in a pseudo medieval Renaissance style world, this richly told tale centres around the would-be assassin Mia Corvere, bent on reve...

I posted this originally on Wattpad, but apparently you have to sign up to that site before you can read this, so I'm posting it he...

 I read this because of the hype surrounding Liu Cixin's more recent novel, The Three Body Problem. I wanted to read some of the aut...

This book had a lot to live up to. One of last year's standout debuts, Traitors Blade was a fun action-packed thrill ride owing more...

I've read that The Liars Key is not a redemption tale. I think it absolutely is. Perhaps not for Jalan, but for the reader. We may no...

                        As usual Sean Kavanagh does not disappoint with another strong collection. With a couple of real standout stori...

The first thing that impressed me about this book was the cover. Hauntingly beautiful, with an impression of scale and loneliness, an imp...