The good, the bad and the bookish

Biased, candid and subjective book reviews of whatever we happen to be reading

Saturday, February 28

Babyproof - Emily Giffin

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Claudia Parr never wanted children, not even for a moment. They're fine for other people, but not for her. This had been a relationship ...
Friday, February 27

The Mercedes Coffin – Faye Kellerman

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When Hollywood music producer Primo Eckerling is murdered execution-style, billionaire computer genius Genoa Greeves sees similarities with ...
Thursday, February 26

Crime Seen – Jenny Pausacker

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Fifteen-year-old Harris Johnson, much to the distress of his mother, has long been interested in what happens to the dead. When he gets a wo...
Wednesday, February 25

The OK Team - Nick Place

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Hazy Retina was born out of focus, an issue that's been a problem for him all his life. A lifelong fan of superheros, he suddenly realis...
Tuesday, February 24

Bootlegger’s Daughter - Margaret Maron

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Incensed by judicial injustice, lawyer Deborah Knott decides on the spur of the moment to run for a vacant appointment in her home town of C...
Monday, February 23

Kelley Armstrong: Industrial Magic

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Someone is murdering the teenage offspring of the sorcerers’ cabals and it falls to a young witch to find out who and put a stop to the kill...
Sunday, February 22

The Science of Science-Fiction Writing - James Gunn

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In this generally comprehensive (I'll come to the not comprehensive part shortly), Gunn guides the would-be SF writer first (in "Ho...
Friday, February 20

The Devil Inside – Jenna Black

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Morgan Kingsley knows all she needs to about demons – raised in a Spirit Society family, her parents support the willing hosting by humans o...
Thursday, February 19

After-Death Communication – Emma Heathcote-James

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Some people who have experienced the death of someone close have vivid dreams about them; sense the strong presence of the dead person (or p...
Wednesday, February 18

The Thieves of Ostia – Caroline Lawrence

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Flavia is the young daughter of a sea captain in Ostia, a Roman seaport. Always good at finding things, her search for a missing signet ring...
Tuesday, February 17

Nathan Burrage: Fivefold

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A group of friends out hiking stumble across the ruins of a thirteen century cathedral. After exploring the site they suddenly start to mani...
Sunday, February 15

Freedom's Price - Suzanne Brockmann

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American journalist Liam Bartlett came close to death on the island of San Salustiano - investigating corruption among the nations military,...
Friday, February 13

Wedding Season - Katie Fforde

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Sarah Strafford doesn't believe in love, which is somewhat unexpected in a wedding planner. She is, however, creative, organised, and co...
Thursday, February 12

Ten Days to Zero - Bernard Ashley

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Ben Maddox is a journalist who could be embroiled in the biggest case of his fledgling career, tracking down the truth behind a diplomat...
Wednesday, February 11

I Married an Earthling - Alvin Orloff

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Norvex 7, an Earth Studies professor from the evolved planet Zeeron, wants to make a point. His planet is benevolent and prioritises outrage...
Tuesday, February 10

City of Bones - Cassandra Clare

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When Clary Fray's attention is caught by a gorgeous looking guy at the all ages night club Pandemonium she's intrigued. When he foll...
Monday, February 9

Barbara Michaels: Someone in the House

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An academic is invited to spend the summer at a friend and colleague’s house where the two of them hope to finish a text they have been coll...
Sunday, February 8

Winter - John Marsden

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At the age of sixteen Winter De Salis has returned to her childhood home, the country property of Warriewood. She has been living with relat...
Saturday, February 7

The General - Robert Muchamore

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Just outside Las Vegas lies the world's biggest armed forces training camp and, for the first time, the US Army wants to include the CHE...
Friday, February 6

Christopher Moore: Bloodsucking Fiends

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When a woman is attacked in an alley and wakes up a vampire she soon learns that her new lifestyle will require daylight support. To this en...
Thursday, February 5

The Game - Diana Wynne Jones

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Hayley's an orphan and an only child being brought up by her grandparents. Her grandmother's rule-bound, hates colouring outside the...
Wednesday, February 4

Quite Ugly One Morning - Christopher Brookmyre

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Jack Parlabane has fled the US and is laying low in his native Scotland. When he wakes, hung over, the smell of fresh vomit is familiar, but...
Tuesday, February 3

Water Witches - Chris Bohjalian

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Scottie Winston, a lawyer/lobbiest for the ski industry in Vermont, is married to a dowser, a gift that runs in the Avery family. Laura'...
Monday, February 2

Pam Rosenthal: The Edge of Impropriety

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A widowed countess, left impoverished by her husband’s first family, turns to writing popular novels to make ends meet. For publicity purpos...
Sunday, February 1

House of Many Ways - Diana Wynne Jones

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Charmain Baker mother is always concerned about things not being proper - as a consequence, Charmain has no idea how to cook or clean, but s...
Saturday, January 31

Couch World - Cathy Yardley

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PJ has a life she's happy with - she spends her evenings as an up-and-coming San Franciscan DJ, scratching, spinning and mixing disks an...
Friday, January 30

The Extra Large Medium - Helen Slavin

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From the time she was a child Annie Colville has seen the dead - they're always dressed in chocolate brown, and they want her to deliver...
Thursday, January 29

Enna Hittims - Diana Wynne Jones

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Anne Smith is miserable and exhausted (and starving!) with the mumps, thought she's so miserable and exhausted that her parents say she ...
Wednesday, January 28

A Darker Domain - Val McDermid

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It seems like the coldest of cold cases when DI Karen Pirie is asked to locate a man missing for almost quarter of a decade, but Mick Prenti...
Tuesday, January 27

Kitty Kitty - Michele Jaffe

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Jas, the star of Bad Kitty , is back, this time in Italy, completely against her will, thanks to Dadzilla, who's researching the history...
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