Review by Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone Pre-order this book here. When I begin a novel, I anticipate a journey into new or differently interpreted experiences and I hope to be provoked into new or deeper a…
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Buy Dark Matter. Review by Tracey Sinclair. If you like the ‘classic’ ghost stories of Susan Hill and her ilk, then you’ll love this tale of an Arctic adventure gone tragically wrong. Tense, atmospher…
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Buy The Shining Girls. Review by Tracey Sinclair I’m not usually a fan of crime books where we spend too much time in the killer’s mind – too often it seems these chapters are there simply to show off…
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So I’ve kept a list of books read since 1995, I may have mentioned that before, I’m quite geeky about it, if you’re interested the list is here. I’ve listed my favourite reads of the year below and if…
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Buy this book Review by Tracey Sinclair Fans of Ian Rankin’s creation John Rebus were thrilled when the cantankerous old copper came out of retirement, and though his debut return Standing in Another…
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Review written by Richard Wood. You can buy this book here. Hancock paints a cloying backdrop of South London to frame a gripping and fraught examination of the power struggle between employer and emp…
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Review written by Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone. Buy this book here. The Medici Mirror is Melissa Bailey’s first novel and it is a gripping one. Hidden in the basement of an abandoned Victorian shoe factor…
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Buy The Wicked Girls Review by Tracey Sinclair From Mary Bell to Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, children who kill children remain uniquely horrifying and perennially fascinating. Alex Marwood isn’t…
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Buy Redshirts. Review by Tracey Sinclair. You don’t have to be a Star Trek fan to love Redshirts – though it certainly doesn’t hurt. This cleverly written novel is set in a universe suspiciously simil…
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Buy this book here. Review by Tracey Sinclair. The title of this book is, as the author cheerfully and rather cheekily admits, something of a misnomer, since there’s little actual evidence that Willia…
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Buy this book. Review by Justine Solomons. You know how some books stay with you for ages? Shift your world perceptions, make you re-assess your own actions and thoughts? Well, Still Alice is one of t…
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Buy this book. Review by Justine Solomons. I remember watching the 2011 London Riots and being amazed, but also thinking ‘this is inevitable isn’t it?’ Our capitalist society just isn’t fair. Things l…
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Due to be released on 12 September 2013, pre-order your copy here. Review by Zoe Cunningham The Cruellest Game contains an important admonition. It’s one we should all know already, yet countless hero…
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A while back we met with, Katy Grant and Karen Green, the founders of the very popular Facebook Book Club. They started their group just over a year ago, to help friends decide what books to read. Sin…
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Buy this book here. Review by Julia Newhouse In the wake of big criminal cases (like the recent discovery of three women held captive in Ohio for over a decade), communities tend to ask themselves wha…
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Buy this book for only £2.29 here. Review by Julia Newhouse. Have you ever just wanted to shut the world out? Destroy your phone? Stop going into work? Take up residence in a walk-in closet? Wait. Tak…
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Buy The View on the Way Down. Review by Julia Newhouse. There are books that hit that you, because they are emotionally heavy. They move, they provoke, they touch you. These are the very adjectives th…
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Buy this book. Review by Justine Solomons. I really enjoyed the Human Script and since reading it a while have found myself reflecting on it often. Chris Putnam is a young scientist working on the Hum…
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Buy this book here. Review by Tracey Sinclair. The discovery of the long-lost skeleton of Richard III in a Leicester carpark has reignited interest in this most controversial of monarchs, but those lo…
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Review by Caroline Goldsmith. Buy this book here. Back in 2012 Tracey Sinclair introduced us to the world of “Dark Dates”, a London inhabited by vampires and home to feisty heroine and “sensitive” Cas…
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