Photo : Tibet and Stapleton, 1991. (photo Ruth Bayer) England’s Hidden Reverse is an impressive, illustrated, hard backed volume coupled...

Slade House is a strange little book. The start is very strong, the middle is repetitive and the end feels like a tagged on battle of...

Publisher: Vintage (3 Aug. 2017) ISBN-10: 0099594021 I’ve been looking forward to the paperback release of Hagseed for a long time, and...

Swing Time is a beautiful novel that transcends borders. It is set in London, where the main character was born, New York and a village...

I am not sure why I came to this book so late. The Haunting of Hill House is a wonderful novel. Four people gather together in a...

The title “The Winged Bull” refers to a ritual and the hero of the story, Murchison. Murchison is engaged by Brangwyn to help cure his...

Natsuo Kirino is an angry young woman. I understand and appreciate that in an author. I read her crime thriller "Out" before and...

Natsuo Kirino doesn't just write crime. She transports us to urban Japan where four working class women face off against a crime boss and...

I wish I could write books like Haruki Murakami, where the real and the unreal bleed into one another. The mundane seems extraordinary...

Foucault's Pendulum demonstrates the earth's rotation around a fixed point. From this premise Umberto Eco created an intricate novel,...

The Grotesquerie is a collection of 22 short stories by various authors celebrating women in horror. I bought it because the editor Eden...

I've had a bit of a Ryu Murakami fest this week. His books are so quick to read yet they chill me to the bone. Ryu Murakami's antagonists...

Audition by Ryu Murakami I watched the movie directed by Takashi Miike some years ago. I remember it moved very slowly at first, lulling...

I read four novels “It Can't Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis (published in 1935), “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley (published in 1932),...

Clive Barker is a genius. Hellbound Heart, the Puzzle Box and Pinhead have influenced numerous horror writers to create new and fantastic...

This intensely disturbing novella has three narrators each of whom are probably unreliable, but this does nothing to hamper Cushing's...

I was sent an advance copy of Song of the Death God by the publisher in exchange for a review. The book is to be released late April...

The yellow sticker on the front claimed this would be the most terrifying book I will read this year. I tend to be terrified by more...

There exist books that can show us deep truths about the human condition using animals as protagonists. Watership Down, Animal Farm and...

Mr Splitfoot is a gorgeous and rich fantasy story set in contemporary America but managing a very old-world feel. It was listed in Barnes...