Books

July 9, 2020• Books

Reading in a Time of Covid

Since the world went to the dogs earlier in the year, and many of us have been stuck largely in our homes, our lives have basically been...

February 4, 2020• Books

I knew that I wanted to read this book almost as soon as I heard about it. There were at least three podcasts featuring Wiener in my queue,...

January 31, 2020• Books

Good Omens is one of those books that has somehow slipped past me for thirty years… until now. The book was published in 1990, and at...

January 29, 2020• Books

Having just read and loved Scrublands, I was delighted to discover a sequel has just been published. Once again, we follow Martin Scarsden,...

January 29, 2020• Books

The premise of this book is so ridiculous that I wouldn’t have given it a second thought, had I not heard a really good review of it. I...

January 29, 2020• Books

Another title that has been kicking around in my home for a while, but which has all the ingredients for me to really enjoy. Spies at...

January 29, 2020• Books

This anthology had been kicking around for a while, so over Christmas I finally got around to reading it. It’s a collection of short...

January 29, 2020• Books

Orford Ness, on the Suffolk coast is a remarkable place. I first visited it as a child when we were spent a week of our summer holidays in...

January 29, 2020• Books

When I first saw Scrublands appear on bookshelves, I thought that perhaps it was the usual story of another publisher jumping on the...

January 29, 2020• Books

The Lost Man follows on the heels of Jane Harper’s two previous crime fiction novels set in the Australian outback – Force of Nature...