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 ...

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...

Another fantasy review for you today, The Name of the Wind . I promise this'll be the last one (for a little while) so if these isn...

I'm still on a fantasy kick at the moment ( read my review of Robin Hobb  The Assassin's Apprentice  here ) and ordered a whole bunc...

Robert Harris is best known for Fatherland, a novel about an alternative reality in which Hitler won the war, but he has also written loads ...

As George R.R Martin is a notorious slow writer, I'm trying to find an alternative fantasy series to get into while I wait for the next ...

The Night Rainbow by Claire King is the sort of book your mum might read (though to be honest I tried to pass this on to mine, and she rejec...

I've been expanding my reading horizons recently, first with a Western   now with fantasy. Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere   is all about a...

Oooh, we're only on the 5th and I've already got some good books to share with you. First up is  The Sisters Brothers   by Patrick...

Beloved   is a ghost story, as well as a story about slavery, which at first may sound a bit odd but actually works really well. Toni Morr...

The blog has recently been about what I've being doing, rather than what I've been reading, so thought I should give a quick update....

Here's what I've read this month (click to see full review) Max Barry, Lexicon Graham Joyce, Some Kind of Fairy Tale   Octavia ...

When photographing this book I was quite tempted to find the darkest corner in my house, but then realised that was a daft idea. Into The ...

Yay more feminist literature! I  was shocked to see that so far this year my reading list has been many male, to rectify this, this month (w...

Just realised that so far I've only reviewed two books this months, that's a pretty poor show for a book reviewing blog. I tried a...

I've broken my self imposed book buying ban in a big way, but in my defence 3 of the 5 are second-hand. Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fea...

As I mentioned in this post , after reading a sample of Lexicon  on kindle I immediately reserved the book from the library.  The Plot:  ...

After reading Wild Seed in April  I've been on the hunt for some more Octivia Butler. My local library is sadly lacking the patternister...

On the hunt for new authors, Wesley Chu's The Lives of Tao  was one of the book I downloaded as a kindle sample. (for a full list of sam...

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...