Two trips away, to Wiltshire and then camping in Hastings, plus an illness has meant that blogging hasn't been a priority this mo...

Recently released at the cinema, and billed as the new Hunger Games , I thought I should give The Maze Runner a chance. I discovered that th...

After been rather impressed (although not completely won over) by Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking trilogy It's been on my agenda to rea...

I'm not that fussed about Dave Eggers, I know some people absolutely love his books, but before The Circle  I'd only read What is th...

"Every generation get the end-of-the-world anxiety it deserves; it used to be transcendental, then it became elemental, and now it is ...

One of the best things about kindle is the 'try before you buy', where you can get samples of books, usually the first chapter, sent...

After watching the most recent Hunger Games film, (which is brilliant by the way) I wanted to go back and re-read the series, so I picke...

If you're a fan of The Walking Dead , World War Z or 28 days later , you might want to give The Passage a try. It's the first part...

“Before she became the Girl from Nowhere- the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years- she was just a ...

As I mentioned here  I'm a big Atwood fan. Her dry wit, clever word play and vivid imagination all appeal to me. Plus she's a fem...