The good, the bad and the bookish

Coming home from a family trip, thirteen year old Jeff is momentarily alone at a gas station when he is abducted at knife point. His abducto...

Inspired by the aftermath of the Columbine shootings, this 2001 collection of young adult stories focuses on the disenfranchised teen - thos...

Reuters correspondent Connie Burns was suspicious of John Harwood, a violent misogynist, when they first crossed paths during the Sierra Leo...

When her mother remarries, a teenaged girl moves to a small town to live with her father. There she meets and falls in love with a member of...

Voracious reader Angel Robinson is directed to the perfect job by her would-be author boyfriend, Malcolm - reader/assistant to famed literar...

Sawyer revisits some of his usual, but by no means travel-worn themes in this collection of short stories 1989 to the present, and his writi...

For Shyam Mehra (Sam Marcy), team boss of the Western Appliances Strategic Group night shift, working at a call centre is a safe job to tide...

Under Cover , one of Davidson's first published works, consists of three interlinked novellas. In "Sweet Strangers" security s...

Calm and collected Londoner Alex Hill has it all - a stimulating job as a sportswear exec, the perfect apartment, and the fast track up the ...

The difficulty in reviewing anthologies, particularly when they're as wide ranging as this series, is capturing the flavour of each cont...

Rob Garland has a problem. Ever since he narrowly survived being killed in a pub inferno, spared by nothing more than chance, the Mancusian ...

PI Phil Kramer has a lifetime of experience - he would never have survived otherwise. So what made him relax his guard enough to be shot, in...

Heartbroken and scorned a young divorcee steals a packet of incriminating letters from her ex-husband but can find nobody who will believe t...

Bryson is justifiably well known for his interesting, humorous and comprehensive take on the world. In Down Under he turns his attention to ...

Janey Fabre's an actuary - numbers, statistics and probablility are her life. Well, they would be if she had a life, but men seem to see...

This sequel to Three Men in a Boat tells of a rambling bicycle trip George, still unmarried, Harris and "I" - sans dog - take th...

Undead, shoe-addicted vampire Betsy Taylor's back for her sixth outing, and this time she's about to get married, even if her Consor...

Eli's always known his father had a problem with famed geneticist Quincy Wallace, though he's never known why. He and his father are...

A young English Professor finds a battered manuscript in a second hand bookshop which could prove to be the making of her academic career. S...

Subtitled What the French know about cooking , this is an account of foodie Booth's year in Paris, where he combines his experiences at ...

William Powers, leader of the Power Players acting company, is resolved to bring Titus Andronicus to the people. Sure, it's 1942, and h...

Miles’ wedding to the beautiful Ekaterin approaches, and it seems as though all of Vorbarr Sultana want it to be a success. Initially small,...

His first fifteen years with an unstable and mercurial mother have scarred Matt – he knows he can’t really trust anyone. Not his absent nurs...

Mind-reading waitress/vampire's assistant Sookie Stackhouse is back, this time accompanying the Queen of Louisiana to a vampire summit, ...

Diminutive Ben Wolf's got plans for his senior year - he's getting ready to leave the tiny Indiana town he's spent his whole lif...

When a crippled woman is sold into service to repay her father’s debts she finds herself bonded to handsome smuggler. But she suspects that ...

Mermaid Fred's back. It's a year on, and nothing much has changed. She's still working at the aquarium (where her best friend an...

When cop-turned-PI Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear, he hoped it would be the ast time he heard of her. Afraid to go to the police, a...

Ellie Summers was doing fine - supporting her artist boyfriend by painting people's houses from photos while he creates installations th...

Fred's a mermaid. She's also a marine biologist, and doesn't sit on a rock combing her long ocean-blue hair (to match her eyes)....