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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…
Seven novels about journalists
Journalists make great protagonists, particularly in crime fiction. They have the skills to investigate, and we somehow grant them permission…
Book review: The Truth about Archie and Pye by Jonathan Pinnock
After a chance encounter with eccentric author George Burgess on a train, Tom Winscombe learns that he has been murdered.…
