Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman ‘Stop it! You’re all behaving like animals! Worse than animals – like blankers!’ Sephy is a Cross: she lives a life of privilege and power. But she’s lonely, and burns with injustice at the world she sees around her. Callum is a nought: he’s considered to be less than nothing – […]
Recently Read – The Wall by John Lanchester
The Wall by John Lanchester Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid […]
Recently Read – Streets of Darkness by A A Dhand
Streets of Darkness by A A Dhand The sky over Bradford is heavy with foreboding. It always is. But this morning it has reason to be – this morning a body has been found. And it’s not just any body. Detective Harry Virdee should be at home with his wife. Impending fatherhood should be all […]
Recently Read – The Guest List by Lucy Foley
The Guest List by Lucy Foley Set on a remote island off the Irish coast, this is one guest list no one would want to be on, just as no one would have wanted an invitation to the New Year’s Eve party in Foley’s previous novel, The Hunting Party . Lives unravel amid the revelry […]
Recently Read – Doing Time by Jodi Taylor
Monday 20th April 2020 and day 28 of the Coronavirus lockdown. Doing Time by Jodi Taylor A long time ago in the future, the secret of time travel became known to all. Everyone seized the opportunity – and the world nearly ended. There will always be idiots who want to change history. And so, the […]
Recently Read – Half a World Away by Mike Gayle
It’s Tuesday 14th April 2020 and we’re on day 22 of the coronavirus lockdown in the UK. There is a global lockdown due to the virus also known as COVID-19. When the lockdown first started I considered starting another blog to diarise this period in history, but as we’re confined to our homes, I wasn’t […]
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