Here are my favourite crime novels of 2018. Tap the book link to read my full review. My first two…
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Book review: The Circle of Ceridwen by Octavia Ralph
Over the last year or so I’ve binged my way through Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Stories (adapted for TV as The…
Mini book review: Pig Wrestling by Pete Lindsay and Dr Mark Bawden
Pig Wrestling promises a powerful approach to problem solving delivered via a ‘fable’ about said pig. The fable is in…
Book review: Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny
Kingdom of the Blind has an unusual structure. As it’s the first book I’ve read in the Chief Inspector Gamache…
Book review: Rosewater by Tade Thompson
I don’t read a massive amount of science fiction but Rosewater had an interesting premise. It’s set in a near-future…
Book review: The Place You’re Supposed to Laugh by Jenn Stroud Rossmann
The Place You’re Supposed to Laugh opens with fourteen-year-old Chad on his way to get his father out of jail, in…
Book review: Middle England by Jonathan Coe
I’ve had mixed responses to Jonathan Coe novels over the years. I loved The Rotters’ Club and What a Carve…
Book review: No Tomorrow by Luke Jennings (Killing Eve 2)
I enjoyed Codename Villanelle but for me No Tomorrow, the second in the series that inspired the TV drama Killing…
Book vs TV: Codename Villanelle and Killing Eve
I don’t normally do this: compare books and their adaptations, preferring to enjoy one and forget about the other. This…
Book review: Nine Pints by Rose George
In Nine Pints Rose George does for blood what she did for human waste in The Big Necessity. Nine Pints…
