The good, the bad and the bookish

In 2002, in the wake of September 11, New Yorker “editor, reporter, reviewer, mother, daughter, wife and compulsive reader” decided to keep ...

When a serial killer misses his target a psychic police informant finds herself not only the next person on his hit list but also under susp...

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife is a followup to Roach's fascinating book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers , which looke...

Science teacher Mark Buckle is trying to come to terms with the fact that his girlfriend has just been killed in freak car accident. Her par...

Because when I'm on a roll with an author or genre... O is for Outlaw opens with a call from Teddy Rich, a storage space gambler or sca...

There are some people, known as Travellers, who have the ability to leave their bodies and move in spirit to other dimensions. There are tho...

Dr Sapolsky is a neuroendocrinologist who has spent a portion of every year in Africa, observing primate behaviour, for the past two decades...

This second collection of Jeffrey Steingarten’s food essays for American Vogue is as enchanting, satisfying, delicious and informative as t...

Hmm - I'm clearly in a romance-type headspace right now. I really liked the premise of this novel – three women discover, part way into ...

Picked out of a remainder bin at a nearby newsagent, I did not have high hopes for this tale of investigative reporter Angel Buchanan resear...

The same friend who loaned me the disappointing Star brought over Nights for me to read while recuperating from a dramatic but inconsequen...

After The Girl in Times Square I swore I would’t read another Simons novel. That was until my hairdresser loaned me Eleven Hours , which I ...

Multiracial adoptee TJ (Tao Jones) is the bane of his sports-obsessed high school principal’s existence – he has the ability to substantivel...

I was captured by the concept of this book – the text tells the tale of the death of Plato’s Academy student Tramacus, apparently torn apart...

Matt Devlin left his ex-wife and his career in Baltimore, and moved with his rebellious teen daughter Sylvia to New York. He's a member ...

Subtitled Tales from the world of midwives , this moving and inspiring collection of midwives’ tales arose from a 2002 decision by a branch ...

Four women work nights together on the production line of a pre-packaged lunch company in Tokyo. Although they appear very different, they a...

An unethical parapsychologist and his psychotic millionaire backer are kidnapping supernatural beings in order to study them (the doctor) an...

As with the Cornwell novels, I had left Kinsey Millhone and the alphabet series alone for quite some time. How long? Well, my copy of N is f...

New York high school junior Norah Bloom is looking forward to college (hopefully Vassar), but hasn’t any extra-curriculars to add to her tra...

In the future the ugly and deformed are purposely trained to investigate hostile planets then sent into space on board ships as expendable c...

Well the title just about says it all for this one. A man who knows what men like, from the dual sources of both his own body and playing wi...

I’ve read a number of Binchy’s books, though none recently, and enjoyed them. Then a friend loaned me Star , a considerably more slender vol...

I have seen Simons's books, with their distinctive covers, around for a while now - they're hard to miss, unless you're Lynn, wh...

An anthology that turns the stereotypical image of the leather bikini clad fantasy heroine on its head. Their chainmail isn’t for ceremonial...

Based on a BBC series by the same name, The Future Just Happened is an exploration of I didn’t seem the BBC series on which this was based,...

Another instalment in the Phryne Fisher mystery series. This book has Phryne find a mummified body being passed off as a mannequin in the gh...

When Maria Headley set out for New York from her small hometown in Idaho she had a clear picture of her new and glamorous life. But instead ...

Walking through the days in San Diego, his life slowly turning into one fat doobie after another, college receding ever further from his gra...

A wartime nurse on a second honeymoon in Scotland is transported from 1945 to 1743. As an English woman in Jacobite Scotland she needs to we...