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Total Recall, by Phillip K Dick
Philip K Dick’s short science fiction stories are not exciting. They’re rather plodding affairs where remarkably ordinary people have rather ordinary lives in a somewhat unusual, somewhat implausible,...
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The Finno-Ugrian Vampire, by Noémi Szécsi
…..it happens that thanks to my peculiar background I can read a classic horror story as documentation of my family history. As well as being the first published novel from Noémi Szécsi, released in...
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Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland, by Sarah Moss
Sarah Moss, currently lecturing at Exeter University, has previously written two novels, Cold Earth and Night Waking. In 2009, she applied for a position as ‘an expert in nineteenth-century British...
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Winter of the World by Ken Follett
When I read Fall of Giants by Ken Follett, I found the story, the facts, jaw-dropping. He illustrated the stupidity of World War I, much of which was based on the egos of fallible men. In his...
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Full Blooded, by Amanda Carlson
Full Blooded opens up where the action all beings; Jessica McClain is shifting into a werewolf. In a world where shifters, vampires, witches and the like are not unheard of, this might not come as much...
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Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver
Winner of the 2010 Orange Prize for her novel The Lacuna, Flight Behaviour is the newest offering from American author Barbara Kingsolver. The novel takes a single character as its focus, discontented...
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Red Rain, by R L Stine
For those in any doubt, I can confirm that this is the same R L Stine, (often referred to as the Stephen King of children’s horror fiction), who has very successfully thrilled and scared our children...
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The Year After, by Martin Davies
It is December 1919, and Christmas is descending once again over the English countryside. Tom Allen is in London after being in uniform for the last five years, seems not to know what to do with...
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The Persephone Book of Short Stories
To celebrate Persephone Books’ one hundredth publication, the publishing house have issued a new volume of short stories, all of which have been written by female authors between 1909 and 1986. Of the...
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Elijah’s Mermaid, by Essie Fox
Elijah’s Mermaid is the second novel by British author Essie Fox, and follows her debut, The Somnambulist. As with the author’s first novel, Elijah’s Mermaid serves up a great slice of Victoriana to...
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