I loved this book. I am a fan of Sarah Waters, but even so this is my favourite book of hers I've read so far, even though there was a...

Ramsey Campbell wrote the first horror novel that I fell in love with. I was a teenager when I first read that one and it stayed with me....

In order to write well, one needs to read. The pressure on writers to produce a huge back catalogue if they are to have any chance to...

Too often we encounter a thing of beauty at the wrong time in our lives and its layers of splendour and meaning are lost on us. Yesterday...

Magic and perception are two of my special interests, so this book might easily have been written for me. As well as providing an...

What to say about this book? Well the first thing to say was I almost didn't finish it. Parts of it made me spit with fury. Schopenhauer...

“Free Women of Spain” by Martha Ackelsberg made me consider my own relationship towards mainstream feminism or white liberal feminism,...

I’ve raved about Haruki Murakami before, but I can’t help it. I’m a fan girl. “A Wild Sheep Chase” was the first of Murakami’s novels...

After finishing Philip Pullman’s book about writing I returned to Haruki Murakami’s. Either I misremember picking up this book and...

I have a soft spot for books about the craft of writing, so when I saw “Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling” by Philip Pullman I knew I...

Today, on Indie beginnings Marie and I discussed whether trigger warnings have a place in works of fiction and discussed some of the...

I hadn’t planned to start reading this book until next month, but Schopenhauer pissed me off and it was a welcome distraction. 13 Ways to...

Witches Sluts Feminists is a slender volume. It positions itself as a primer on the connections between the three subjects in the title...

My final book for 2017, a year in which I read and reviewed eighty books on Goodreads and a fair number here on my blog. So did the year...

It’s a fascinating book, although I suspect I know barely a fraction of what the story is about at the end of part one of the trilogy....

Originally published in the 1970s and recently translated into English, Giorgio de Maria’s short novel “The Twenty Days of Turin” is...

“He showed them the way into the nightmare, but he could not show them the way out…” Thomas Ligotti. “More a singer than a writer,” was...

The premise of Dark is that every 33 years there is a solar and lunar alignment and that time travel is possible between those moments....

Dance of the Butterfly is set in an unnamed city in central Europe. It is a place where organised crime, represented by the cruel and...

A friend of mine, a fellow author, on learning about the concept of my work in progress – Venus Virus, sent me this book – just in case....