Books

January 23, 2020• Books

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Lucy Foley follows up her very successful and popular whodunnit, The Hunting Party, with a new take on the closed-circle of suspects genre....

December 18, 2019• Books

This is a review of both Neil Gaiman’s novel, but also of the theatrical production that recently began at the National Theatre. The...

December 18, 2019• Books

The Hunting Party is very much a traditional whodunnit, but updated to 2019. The plot includes: A remote location with no way in or out A...

December 17, 2019• Books

Two mothers: one with a dead son, and one with a son who has admitted to killing the other. Keep Him Close jumps back and forward between...

December 16, 2019• Books

I have a confession to make. I’m way behind on William Gibson, despite him being one of my favourite writers. I was recently talking...

December 16, 2019• Books

Starve Acre is a chilling little book – perfect to be read at this time of year, when the long dark nights are upon us. Starve Acre...

December 12, 2019• Books

I’ve never read any of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels, and I felt it was about time to put that right. He’s one of the...

December 12, 2019• Books

I’ve had a copy of Cassandra Darke sitting around for about a year, without having really picked it up to read until now, and...

November 20, 2019• Books

As sure as night follows day, there’s a new Michael Connelly each autumn, and this time around we get a novel that features his three...

November 20, 2019• Books

There has been a brutal attack on a girl in Oxford. She was fortunate that the attacker was scared off by a passing police car, but the...