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Vixen by Rosie Garland The old adage goes that you should never judge a book by its cover. It’s true that I adore the cover of this book, and it’s also true that I decided to read this book because…
Continue readingGone Girl by Gillian Flynn Gillian Flynn probably describes this story best as “dark and nasty” at the end of the author interview that features at the end of the book. At it’s heart this is a really, really simple…
Continue readingThe Collectors by Philip Pullman When the existence of this new short story set in the His Dark Materials universe popped up on my social media feed, I bought it straight away! It’s the most gorgeously perfect little spin off…
Continue readingEqual Rites by Terry Pratchett There are apparently different ‘entry’ points to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books, and in retrospect, I suspect that year’s ago when I read The Colour of Magic – it being the first – was probably the…
Continue readingTruckers: The First Book of the Nomes by Terry Pratchett When Terry Pratchett sadly died last week I felt terrible guilt that I had not fallen in love with his books in the way that so many people (and most…
Continue readingA Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) by George R.R. Martin Game of Thrones is a phenonemon that everyone seems to read and/or watched and have been raving about. I actually ended up reading this pretty…
Continue readingA Song for Ella Grey by David Almond Ever since I first read David Almond’s Skellig I have been a fan of his writing, and loved every one of his books, and this is no exception. A Song for Ella…
Continue readingNolander (Emanations 1) by Becca Mills This is a book with a very interesting premise that somehow fails to deliver. I absolutely loved the use that Beth makes of 35mm photography and developing her own black and white prints, and…
Continue readingGullstruck Island by Frances Hardinge My people knew all this once, but then we made up a story about it and forgot everything but the story. And that is how legends are born. That is, legends, and misunderstandings… Gullstruck Island…
Continue readingThe Miniaturist by Jessie Burton Although I had heard some very good things about this book I was unsure if I was going to take to it; a period novel set in Amsterdam about Nella, newly married to a successful…
Continue readingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins I came to be reading this because both it and the films have been recommended to me by so many people, and to be honest, I think if it hadn’t have been I would…
Continue readingThe Boy In Winter’s Grasp by John D. Scotcher Basing fantasy adventure stories around the Arthurian legends is nothing new, and nor is setting them in wartime. What is different, is mixing them both together, into a Big book with…
Continue readingMr Tumnal has now been out in the real world for a month and and a half, and its already out sold my debut novel by this point in the publishing cycle, and its starting to gather up a number…
Continue readingA Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge This is a big, epic book involving an complex, involving thriller and whodunnit. I came to this book after reading Frances Hardinge’s brilliant, if terrifying, Cuckoo Song, and I was cautious that this…
Continue readingBy the end of 2013 had smashed my personal reading challenge of 20 books by a whopping 195%, and so I vowed in the next year to read as many as that again. In terms of challenges though I erred…
Continue readingThe Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell Not many books can be described as beautiful books, but this is one that is truly stunning. From the partly printed, partly transparent dust jacket revealing further cover art…
Continue readingThe Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame This is a classic book that has, on more than one occasion this year, jumped off the bookshelf again and shouted re-read me! Once, was when a section of it was used…
Continue readingStrandline /C by Tamsin Showbrook My interest in the original Strandline book was in its premise of there being different peoples and races that live unseen from ‘our world’ amongst us but on the edges of our society, on the…
Continue readingThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis I’ve been meaning to re-read the C.S. Lewis classic for a ages, and climbing through the wardrobe into Narnia at The Story Museum a few week’s ago was the final…
Continue readingRooftoppers by Katherine Rundell I first found about this book when I saw a it in a window display from the bus and I added it to my To Read list straight away. However it was not until I visited…
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