May 20, 2019• Books
Anna is living a double life; a true crime podcast is exploring the sinking of a luxury yacht. How are these two things linked? That’s...
This is the first work I’ve read by the Arthur C Clarke winning Adrian Tchaikovsky. It’s a novella told in the first person about a...
April 18, 2019• Books
This book captures the fascinating world of a remote sheep farmer in Iceland. Heida (or more properly Heiða) is a sheep farmer who...
March 21, 2019• Books
Having recently read and enjoyed The Absolution, the third in the ‘Freyja and Huldur’ series, I returned to the first book...
March 14, 2019• Books
It’s 1988, many years before the events recounted in the first of the Hidden Iceland trilogy, The Darkness. A pair of teenagers have...
Following on from the latest Yrsa Sigurðardóttir novel, I thought I’d stay in Iceland and catch up with Ragnar Jónasson who...
March 11, 2019• Books
The Absolution is the third in the “Children’s House” series of books from one if Iceland’s leading crime writers. A...
March 1, 2019• Books
It’s the early 1980s and our narrator, Lizzie Vogel, is about to leave home for the first time, and move from her village into the city...
February 22, 2019• Books
I picked up a copy of Walking in Berlin over Christmas having become fascinated by the period after reading the first couple of Volker...
February 21, 2019• Books
This book lays out the horrifying facts about climate change in a compelling and urgent way. In The Uninhabitable Earth,...
