Books Editorial
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Six Wicked Reasons
Jo Spain - There’s more than a touch of the Agatha Christies about Jo Spain’s latest thriller in which a well-to-do Irish clan reunite at the family home for a celebration, on...
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arise!
Paul Summers - This slim volume from Northumbrian poet Paul Summers is a celebration of the rich cultural heritage of mining communities in the region as well as the resurgenc...
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Mistletoe
Alison Littlewood - This ghost story has a familiar premise. Leah’s young son dies in an accident (her husband is also dead) and she decides a fresh start is required. Where b...
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Grief Road
Vanessa Furse Jackson - Grief is something that we all suffer from and, unsurprisingly, an emotion that has proved a fertile ground for poets and one of solace for readers. (W...
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Oligarchy
Scarlett Thomas - We don’t come across any oligarchs in Scarlett Thomas’s deliciously dark and funny new novel, but we do meet Natasha, the 15-year-old daughter of a shady Rus...
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Starve Acre
Andrew Michael Hurley - Andrew Michael Hurley proved himself a modern master of unnerving folk horror in previous novels ‘The Loney’ and ‘Devil’s Day’, but this is his best wo...
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Somewhere Becoming Rain
Clive James - For a poet that is often praised for being “straight forward” and “easy to understand”, especially when compared to 20th century modernists, there is an awful lo...
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Bad Magic
A. M. Stirling - The key dynamic in this thriller is between cousins, Richard and Amanda, who share a creepy lust/hate relationship. Amanda, a couple of years older than Richa...
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My Life Is Like A Fairy Tale
Robert Irwin - 1944. Germany. Despite the promise of “Hitler’s secret weapon” most Germans have come round to the notion that the war is not going their way. Sonja Heda, meanw...
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Maggy Garrisson
Lewis Trondheim & Stéphane Oiry - Oddly enough this graphic novel was put together by two Frenchman (with translation by Emma Watson – not that one) but it couldn’t be more Br...
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What She Saw Last Night
MJ Cross - This psychological thriller begins with shades of The Lady Vanishes. Jenny Bowen gets on the Caledonian sleeper from London to Scotland. While boarding she sees a w...
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This Little Dark Place
A. S. Hatch - This debut novel is told in the form of an extended letter, which has been written by Daniel from a place of incarceration. He tells Lucy – we don’t find out who...
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The Sound of Her Voice
Nathan Blackwell - Matt Buchanan – the detective in Nathan Blackwell’s New Zealand set novel – tells us on more than one occasion over the course of this book that real life p...
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