2024
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A Beginner's Guide To Breaking and Entering
Reviewed on 6th May 2024
Andrew Hunter Murray’s third novel is an amusing yet insightful tale that follows Al, a self-described interloper, as his life turns chaotic and everything starts to go wrong.
The Cat Who Caught A Killer
Reviewed on 28th April 2024
This was a charity shop purchase which I’m absolutely delighted by.
The Galaxy and the Ground Within
Reviewed on 28th April 2024
The fourth and final Wayfarers book takes us to a low population planet that serves as a rest stop along a galactic superhighway, where three guests are trapped with their host during a planetwide emergency.
The Cloisters
Reviewed on 28th April 2024
This was another new book I picked up based on the attractive cover art, and though it turned out not to be my normal thing, I’m glad I did.
A Dangerous Trade
Reviewed on 20th April 2024
Having finally managed to catch up on all the episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy’s first season, I felt comfortable starting my dive into the three novels that have been published.
Faebound
Reviewed on 20th April 2024
I really loved Saara El-Arifi’s first two novels, so was intrigued to see what she’s constructed in another world. In some respects, it’s a quite different sort of story, but it retains a lot of the progressive elements that I’m finding very comforting in my reading at the moment.
Frontier
Reviewed on 20th April 2024
I bought this short novel after seeing the author recommended for fans of Becky Chambers. It’s not quite in the same space I don’t feel, but close enough that I still found myself enjoying it, particularly as I got more and more invested in the character and the world.
The Three Dahlias
Reviewed on 14th April 2024
This new twist on the golden era/cosy crime genre sees three actresses who played the fictional detective Dahlia Lively meet up for a convention, where naturally they are drawn into solving a real murder.
The Olympian Affair
Reviewed on 7th April 2024
The second full length Cinder Spires novel and it really does feel its length. It took me two goes to read it, having a pause halfway for a holiday and two other novels.
Red Seas Under Red Skies
Reviewed on 7th April 2024
The second adventure of Locke Lamora finds him in a new city, with a new plan, and new things to go wrong with it.
Attack and Decay
Reviewed on 7th April 2024
Book six sees the Vinyl Detective and ever expanding posse head to Sweden on the trail of a rare special edition album which has totally nothing dangerous about it whatsoever.
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Reviewed on 7th April 2024
In this prequel to Star Trek: Picard / sequel to Star Trek: Voyager, we follow Seven of Nine’s journey of discovery following the end of the Voyager TV series. Rejected by the Federation over their fear of her Borg past, she seeks to fit in elsewhere.
A Spoonful of Murder
Reviewed on 9th March 2024
Picked this up in a charity shop as a random buy because the premise sounded like a casual cosy crime I could enjoy. Sadly I never found the enjoyment I was seeking.
A Dirty Job
Reviewed on 9th March 2024
My second visit to the mind of Christopher Moore was as enjoyable as the first. In this novel we meet Charlie, who through a CD-related accidental encounter, believes he has become Death.
Everyone on This Train is a Suspect
Reviewed on 9th March 2024
The classic sequel, in which our protagonist returns to tell another story with a title that tenuously connects it to the first despite not being entirely accurate when it comes to evaluating the plot, wherein only a specific subset of the people on the train some of the time are suspects.
Wish You Weren't Here
Reviewed on 9th March 2024
This was a random purchase for me based on the cover and description. It’s a short but amusing tale of a family of modern day exorcists, who get called to a church on a small island to help the local priest with a poltergeist problem.
Sunbringer
Reviewed on 9th March 2024
I picked up this sequel after having enjoyed Godkiller, but have found it a struggle.
The Maid
Reviewed on 9th March 2024
Picked this up from a charity shop after being very tempted when it first came out in paperback. It took three days to read which was a relief after a book I struggled to get into.
A Death in Diamonds
Reviewed on 22nd February 2024
For obvious reasons to contemporary readers, book four of Her Majesty The Queen Investigates is a prequel, taking us back to 1957 and a younger monarch, setting out to solve one of her early cases.
Red Side Story
Reviewed on 22nd February 2024
After fourteen years’ wait, the sequel to Shades of Grey has finally arrived. I absolutely loved the first book and have read it more times than any other over the intervening years. And so I’m excited and trepidatious to re-enter the world.
A Day of Fallen Night
Reviewed on 22nd February 2024
The prequel to Shannon’s “The Priory of the Orange Tree” is possibly even better than the first novel. I picked it for a holiday as the length meant I wouldn’t need multiple books, but still it took me a good two weeks to race through the 850 pages of narrative.
Mrs Sidhu's Dead and Scone
Reviewed on 22nd February 2024
Although the first Mrs Sidhu novel, the book starts with well established characters, being a spin-off from the radio series. And so this isn’t an origin story at all, and we are straight into the action as the chef turned investigator is called to make scones for a village fete, after the previous volunteer’s murder.
The Defector
Reviewed on 22nd February 2024
Chris Hadfield’s second novel sees the return of the stars of his first, for an unrelated story which begins in Israel in 1973.
Hercule Poirot's Silent Night
Reviewed on 22nd January 2024
Sophie Hannah returns with a well inspired fifth Hercule Poirot mystery. She has a great grasp of the character, style, and mystery, and has produced another captivating tale.
Making It So
Reviewed on 22nd January 2024
Celebrity memoirs are not my usual choice of reading material, but when it’s Patrick Stewart there is an obvious exception.
Defiant
Reviewed on 22nd January 2024
The fourth and final main novel in the Skyward series see us join Spensa as the time comes for her civilisation and its new friends to take the battle to their oppressors.
Star Trek: The Next Generation Cats
Reviewed on 22nd January 2024
This fun little book depicts the main characters and key scenes from the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series as if they were cats.