A Presence of Absence (the Odense Series Book #1) by Sarah Surgey, Emma Vestrheim Published by Blurb on February 28th 2017 Genres: Detective Goodreads The Odense Series is a new Nordic Noir/Brit Crime series that blends humanist stories and family drama with gritty crime in the central Danish city Odense. British detective Simon Weller escapes […]
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Published by Atom Pages: 435 Goodreads Here we go, for some reason you lot have been hanging out for this rant from me. I have to get this out of my system before I do my quiz for uni. If you’re a fan you might want to leave right now…you have been […]
Enough Rope 3 by Andrew Denton Published by ABC Books – AU on November 1st 2005 Pages: 352 Goodreads When he first started Enough Rope, Andrew Denton expressed the fear that he would wake up and see ‘the yawning gap where his career used to be’. Now into its third year, Enough Rope is a […]
Lady, Lady, I Did It! by Ed McBain, Dick Hill Published by Thomas & Mercer on March 2nd 2012 Genres: Police Procedural Pages: 196 Goodreads During the heat of an Indian summer, a quadruple homicide that includes among its victims the fiancée of an 87th Precinct detective sets off a desperate, vendetta-like hunt for the […]
I don’t normally put a book in twice but a discussion with a Buddhist friend on Facebook prompted me to ask him to read the book and give me his take on it. Thank you, Andrew. Having read many texts and been a student of the Buddhist philosophy, I was intrigued to take up an […]
Clementine Ford’s ‘Fight Like A Girl’ is a fantastic read, as well as an exceedingly brutal read. Ford uses her trademark no nonsense prose to clearly explain the horrors – there really is no other word for it – that women and girls face every single day, from the threat of murder and domestic violence, […]
You know, having kids means you get to read a lot of fairy stories and in some cases they examine them more carefully as they grow up and find them wanting. It’s not necessarily because the original fairy story has issues but because of what’s been done to it in popular culture i.e. Disney has […]
The things one finds on a quick search! Having tantalised you I’m going to talk about the book first before telling you what I’ve found. You can either be patient and read through or ignore it and skip to the bottom. The Book! This is a spy/kidnapping type story. Lucy, the eight-year-old daughter of Professor Wragby has been […]
Peter Haining is my all-time favourite editor, he’s put together so many of my favourite anthologies that I wouldn’t know where to begin to choose just one. Instead I’ll talk about the latest one I’ve read. Haining has been putting together anthologies for longer than I can remember, sadly he won’t be doing any more as he […]
I’m so over committed I’m finding it hard to fit in enough time for reading. I’ve currently run out of books I’ve read to scribble a few words about and am showing you one of my university novels instead. Next week I have an anthology of fantasy short stories which I’ll be finishing tonight. This […]
