Our reading tastes tend to change over time. We return to some authors again and again, authors we never get…
Poor tragic sensitive Werther. He’s always at emotional extremes. When he’s happy, heavenly raptures fill his heart with delight and…
A frighteningly plausible dystopia, The Wall is set in the near future after an event called the Change. As a…
The debut novel of South African author, Olive Schreiner, was published in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Iron. I had…
2019 was an interesting year of reading. Not only did I complete 125 books (and abandon dozens of them after…
Robots. What are they? Do we need them? How do they differ from humans? Will they take over the world?…
If you’re a fan of Lesley Kara’s debut novel The Rumour, then I think you’ll enjoy Who Did You Tell?…
“Bah! Humbug!” I have a fondness for Scrooge. Not only has he got a fantastic name (typically Dickensian), he’s a…
The ‘eighth story’ in the Harry Potter series was published in 2016, the same year the play began showing in…
A twisting, tense thriller, this is a great read with a nod to Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin. I hadn’t…