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...

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...

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....

After my recent lament about poor editing in indie books, it was a delight to read Claire Marta’s book. Not only was the story...

Indie authors have the enviable freedom to write something so unique that it would be considered unmarketable to mainstream publishers....

Madame Two Swords is a beautifully written tale set in an alternate France, 200 years after their failed revolution. Things seemed to...

I have a soft spot for classic literature. Even so I felt nervous before tackling “Crime and Punishment”. Its reputation preceded it....

It was with great pleasure that I received a review copy of Adam Nevill’s latest release - “Hasty For the Dark”. The collection is...

Why did I know nothing about Biafra? In the late 1960s there were terrible acts of genocide against the Igbo people in Nigeria....

That wonderful feeling when someone you’ve thought of as a contemporary and peer makes it to the big time. With the release on Friday...

Fight Club packs a lot into a very short read. It critiques class and masculinity in America. It looks at mental illness in the forms of...

"The Barbers had said they would arrive by three. It was like waiting to begin a journey." The Paying Guests is about a love triangle...