She didn’t just appear on my reading list. She stormed in, a living scandal in emerald silk, lips unapologetically red.  When I started Th...

Once I finally had the chance to read Steven L. Peck’s A Short Stay in Hell , I devoured the whole 100-pages-or-so in an evening. Peck’s exi...

Khaled Hosseini is an author who doesn't just tell a story but writes about lives marked by tragedy. I have recently come to enjoy his b...

"I shut my eyes but I can still hear her. I put my hands over my ears but I can still hear her. I  can run and run and run but I’ll nev...

Orwell delivers a gripping and insightful read in this human, politically sharp and dare I say hopeful account of his time serving the anti-...

It’s been eighteen months since Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine after its residents began dying from a mysterious illness. ...

This is a collection of emotive short stories by Cornish writers.  Salt & Stone is a beautifully textured anthology that masterfully cap...

Paul Taylor-McCartney’s Sisters of the Pentacle is the first book of The Broken Pentacle Series, and is a fascinating tale that mixes histor...

In the past I have found the work of this renowned US poet somewhat complex and impenetrable. Killing Spree , in sharp contrast, is spare an...