Book Reviews

  • The Green-Eyed Monster by Mike Robinson

    I don’t pretend to totally understand chaos theory: butterflies flapping their wings on the other side of the world seem distant and, if I’m honest, rather insignificant to me. Jealousy and envy – that I get. Who hasn’t been a little envious when their friend got the boy, the job, the promotion…? Mike Robinson skillfully…

  • Rook by Jane Rusbridge

    Nora, a concert Cellist, returns home after an incident a year earlier which has left her broken and unable to play. She is haunted by the memory of a man, older than she, with whom she had an affair which, we believe, ended badly. Her mother, obsessed with the glamour of her past and making…

  • Wild Children by Richard Roberts

    Do you believe in sin? Do you believe that your sin can mark you? This is what happens in Richard Robert’s superb book Wild Children. Told in five ‘acts’ and from 5 different perspectives, we follow the story of six different children, each turned into a wild child by some unspecified sin. From the first…

  • The Tale of Rawhead & Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf

    The mid-18th century was a dark time. Life was often worth very little and the nascent age of science was yet to mature into the elder statesman we know it as today. Into this era was born Tristan Hart, a young man obsessed with pain, the purity of its expression and how to prevent it.…

  • An Interview with Laurence MacNaughton

    Following my review of Conspiracy of Angels yesterday, I was lucky enough to secure an interview with the talented Mr. MacNaughton himself. I hope you enjoy it and if you read on to the bottom you’ll find out how you can win a digital copy of Conspiracy of Angels for yourself. Hi Laurence! Can you share…

  • A Conspiracy of Angels by Laurence MacNaughton

    Mitch Turner is newly released from prison and goes to live with his asthmatic brother. Top of his to do list is to find out the truth about his daughter’s death. When a young girl called Geneva visits him one day asking what the Archangel project is about and what his role in it –…

  • The Rabbi In The Attic by Eileen Pollack

    The Rabbi In The Attic is a collection of short stories written by Eileen Pollack who covers a wide range of topics . In The Rabbi In The Attic, Eileen Pollack has brought together a

  • Dead Scared by S.J. Bolton

      Dead Scared is the fifth book by S.J. Bolton and the second with DC Lacey Flint as the main protagonist. In Dead Scared, Lacey is sent undercover to Cambridge University where there have been a number of student suicides. DC Flint assumes the identity of an emotionally vulnerable young woman – the profile of…

  • The Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson

    Sisters Evangeline and Elizabeth have travelled to 1920s China with older and more experienced woman Millicent in order to undertake missionary work. Each sister has taken something with them that doesn’t seem to belong in their new life.

  • Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentine

    When I was a wee girl my parents used to take me to see the circus at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow every Christmas. I vividly remember the smells: sawdust, animals and cotton candy, and the other kids laughing at the freakishly frightening clowns. I remember the noises; the trumpeting, roaring otherworldliness of it all…