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Book Review: The Zombie Cookbook
I once had a friend tell me that, when evaluating cookbooks, it’s important to not expect every recipe to be of interest to you, and that there can be a cookbook that you... -
Book Review: Leviathan
As ‘what-ifs’ go for the starting point of a novel sequence, this one’s a doosie. Assume that Darwin not only came up with natural selection but that he also pre-empted... -
Book Review: Dark Visions
Dark Visions by L.J.Smith comprises three novels, The Strange Power, The Possessed and The Passion, all of which were originally published back in the mid 1990s. Now they have... -
Book Review: Mr Mumbles (Invisible...
I read Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles on the train to a children’s writers’ event in London and then on the way back again, and so engrossed was I that I had to carry on whilst... -
Book Review: Volcano Roads
Every so often I have a break from reading (and writing) young adult fantasy to read something else and this time it was the latest in Peter Tonkin’s Richard Mariner series.... -
Book Review – Wicked: Witch...
Wicked:Witch and Curse is something of a double whammy of a book. For starters, it comprises the first two novels, Witch and Curse, of the Wicked series. And then there is the... -
Book Review: The Demon’s...
Stephanie Meyer seems to have plunged us all into a craving for YA Urban Fantasy with brooding, mysterious males and teenage misfit heroines, and The Demon Lexicon by Sarah Rees... -
Book Review: Vanished
Ordinarily I don’t read thrillers. I’m not sure why that is because I’m more than happy to watch films or TV series that fall into that category, but when it comes to novels... -
Book Review: Shadowmagic
Once upon a time John Lenahan was a magician. Then he revealed the workings of the 3-card trick, got expelled from the Magic Circle and began a successful media career, starring... -
The Enemy – Charlie Higson
I sat down to read this book last night, and didn’t move from that spot until I finished it some time after 3am. No matter how many times I told myself I’d read “just one...
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