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The Death House by Sarah Pinborough Published 2015, Gollancz This is one of the free books I picked up at FantasyCon 2015. I’ve not read anything by Sarah Pinborough before…
Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny Published 1971, Faber and Faber This was so much fun. In a post-nuclear holocaust America only the coastal cities have survived. Boston has a plague…
Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy Published 1983, Bantam Books Martha Macnamara comes to San Francisco to see her daughter, a genius computer programmer, only to discover…
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Published 2011 Sapiens: A brief history of humankind is a very interesting book that challenges a lot of received wisdom about humans – what we…
Deathworld, by Harry Harrison Published 1960, by Bantam Books Humans have colonized many planets in the galaxy and in most places they live in sealed bubbles that provide a breathable…
Dreaming the Bull is the second of Manda Scott’s Boudica series and covers the period AD 47-54. Breaca and Caradoc, war leaders of the Britons, are in Wales preparing to…
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m a fan of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books. They’re a comfort read. I know what I’m getting and I know I’m…
I love my kindle. It’s much better not having to carry around several books and I run out of something to read much less frequently. I still read and buy…
A little while ago I decided I didn’t want to write any more reviews of books I didn’t enjoy. There are two reasons for this. First, I don’t like doing…
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