I borrowed this book from the library, but after I finished reading it I wished I owed it, because I can already see it's the kind of no...

I have a friend how is obsessed with True Blood and The Southern Vampire Mysteries the tv programme is based on, she was so enthusiastic a...

I'm a fan of Irvine Walsh (see my reviews of Filth and Skagboys ) but if I ever got the opportunity to meet him I think I'd be a bit...

If you haven't already ready read this (after all it's had a fair bit of hype) your summer holiday, beach book is totally sorted. ...

As promised - I've managed to finish one of my draft posts, sorry for being such a flaky blogger. I read Valley of the Dolls last mont...

This was the first book I read this month and I'm only just now reviewing it. Partly because I've been busy, partly because I'm ...

When I was at school I had the great privilege to meet Josef Pearl, a survivor of the holocaust, ( Faces in the Smoke   is his biography). I...

C J Sansom's Tudor mystery series always end up on the best sellers list when they come. They are both popular, and well received by cri...

I won't be surprised if the The Fever Tree is eventually turned into a film, it has been favourably compared to Gone with the Wind and h...

Slumdog Millionaire is one of my favourite films, it make me ball my eyes out but I also find it uplifting. So I thought it about time that...

I always thing I need to read more non-fiction. I listened to a fair number of pod-casts, and watch a lot of documentaries so feel I expose...

As soon as a Margaret Atwood novel comes out it goes straight to the top of my must read list. The Plot: Collection of short stories in...

Not going to lie, the reason I picked The Go-Away Bird up was because of its cover. *Trigger Warning* murder, death, genocide, rape, mu...

Crime isn't really considered to be a highbrow genre, and I am also guilty of looking down on it, I think it's partly because there ...

My spate of reading trashy books continues with Roma by Steven Saylor. However, unlike Never Go Back   this is the good sort of trash: uncom...

I'm starting the year of with a complete trashy read, Never go Back.  The Plot : Jack Reacher is a loner. Ex-military he is a rootl...

Yay! I've managed to cross another Man Booker off my list, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Much has been said about the plot t...

As Christmas is 3 days away, this book about digestion seems kind of appropriate, as no doubt a lot of people will be indulging and over-eat...

Seems ages ago that I did a proper book review- so allow me to present Dust and Shadow by Lyndsay Faye.... The Plot: A serial kil...

As this was the winner of the Man Booker prize this year, I'm sure it'll be on many people's Christmas lists. Although, I've...