I had mixed feelings when I read Ransom Riggs’ book but I was interested to see what Tim Burton did…
The sequel to Beyond the Deepwoods and the second published book in the Edge Chronicles series, Stormchaser is very exciting…
I’ve read this book so many times, it’s like an old friend. It’s difficult to know what to say about…
I knew nothing about this 16th century Chinese classic before reading, so it was quite an adventure for me. A…
The sequel to the magnificent 2001 and the excellent 2010, the third instalment in Arthur C Clarke’s series was a…
Weather’s bad, the news is bleak, It’s been a bloody awful week, So fed up you can barely speak… Let’s…
I was hoping that this book would put the ‘fun’ in ‘fungi’. The subject is so fascinating but unfortunately I…
This is a disturbing novel about a girl who survived terrible abuse in a ‘house of ‘horrors’ and as an…
24th January 1849. Margaret Cullinane, aged 30, was admitted to jail in Cork, Ireland, for stealing potatoes. Her sentence was…
There are millions of books out there which I haven’t read. Lately I’ve been re-reading more than usual, with the…