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UFO Landings UK by Philip Mantle – Review
By Dominic Picksley “We could see the object in the opposite field, it was shaped like a fat cigar with ... -
Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird – Review
By Sarah Morgan Ghosts, ghouls, phantoms, spectres… there are lots of names for those (usually) nighttime visitors from beyond the ... -
The Lindisfarne Gospels by Eleanor Jackson – Review
By Sandra Callard This new book about The Lindisfarne Gospels is a wonderful way to see one of the most ... -
Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me by Kate Clanchy – Review
By Clare Jenkins When poet Kate Clanchy first published this warm, engaging and highly instructive memoir in 2019, she couldn’t ... -
The Sanctuary by Emma Haughton – Review
By Sandra Callard The setting is a desert. Different, certainly, and it begins with thirty something Zoey who is trying ... -
Death on the Downbeat by Sebastian Farr – Review
By Sarah Morgan What do Les Liaisons dangereuses, Dracula, Carrie and Bridget Jones’s Diary have in common? Top marks go ... -
Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6 by Helen Fry – Review
By Karl Hornsey There are literally husbands of books around these days focusing on espionage, the intelligence services and their ... -
We Know You Remember by Tove Alsterdal – Review
By Karl Hornsey Despite being an avid reader of Scandi noir novels for many years, the books of Swedish author ... -
Lost Cars of the 1970s by Giles Chapman – Review
By Dominic Picksley As I heard the whine of the engine approaching, I rushed to the window to see my ... -
Auld Acquaintance by Sofia Slater – Review
By Sandra Callard Here is a crime novel with a theme that has been covered countless times. A collection of ... -
The Winter Garden by Nicola Cornick – Review
By Sandra Callard Nicola Cornick’s novel is split between the modern age and the years before and after those of ... -
The Moon and Stars by Jenna Warren – Review
By Sandra Callard The Moon and Stars concerns the problems of a young man, Matthew Capes, who has a beautiful ...