The Dalai Lama’s Cat by David Michie
An insight into the life and teachings of the His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from the perspective of his cat, Snow Lion.
Book Reviews
Hammered by Elizabeth Bear
Hammered by Elizabeth Bear is Book 1 of the Jenny Casey series (AKA the Wetwired series) and won the 2007 Locus Award for First…
Memory Man by David Baldacci
Memory Man by David Baldacci Gaining the gifts of synaesthesia & a perfect memory after an accident, ex-cop Amos Decker is compelled to act after…
Beginning Operations by James White
Beginning Operations by James White is an omnibus of the first three novels in James White’s Sector General series. Set in an intergalactic hospital, this…
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian teenagers, Efemelu & Obinze, get the opportunity to live and study in the USA and UK. A story of love, race and integration.
Ash Island By Barry Maitland
Quick paced mystery novel, set in modern Sydney. Disgraced Detective Harry Belltree must solve a murder, while avenging his parents death.
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
The follow up to Life after Life, A God in Ruins centers on Teddy Todd. Following his development boy to man, touching on how war…
London Falling by Paul Cornell
London Falling by Paul Cornell is not your ordinary Police procedural. Quill, undercover officers Constain and Sefton and intelligence analyst Lisa Ross discover that the…
The Girl with All the Gifts by M R Carey
The Girl with All the Gifts by M R Carey is an edgy, original dystopian novel about children kept in a secure facility with several…
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey is a gripping novel of suspense in which Maud battles with her Alzheimer’s disease in her quest to find…
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, is the epic tale of a Spanish family, that falls in and out of fortune over…
Cordelia’s Honor by Lois Bujold McMaster
Cordelia’s Honor by Lois Bujold McMaster combines the first two novels in the Vorkosigan series. Set against a backdrop of war between empires &…