Blandford Candy #1 The Last Roundhead is the story of Sir Blandford Candy and his adventures as Roundhead soldier and … More
Category: Self-published / indie
Book review: Aye, Barney by Douglas Lindsay
I’m barging into Barney Thomson’s story eight books in, but I still felt immediately at home with Aye, Barney. Barney is … More
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 … More
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 … More
The Gilded Ones by Brooke Fieldhouse
Pulse is a designer in 80s London, a working-class boy made good. The day after a haunting dream, still tired … More
Audiobook review: Cragside by LJ Ross, narrated by Jonathan Keeble
When a novel opens with a detective on his way to a murder mystery evening, it’s not hard to guess … More
Her Secret Rose by Orna Ross
Her Secret Rose is the first in a trilogy based on the lives of the poet WB Yeats and actor-turned-political … More
The Red Hill by David Penny
My prelaunch tension means I have been struggling to read fiction lately but The Red Hill turned out to be … More
Shaheed! by Will Miller
Shaheed! is a fresh and original story set around a South London estate and the young people who live there. It begins … More