A Night Shift, by Joshua Scribner: #BookReview.
This short piece of dark fantasy puts a different spin on a popular theme, and carries it through with some dark humour. It’s a compact story,…
The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe: #BookReview.
It’s dangerous to review a much-loved and respected classic; even more so for an author. So I face this review with some trepidation. The story is,…
Story in Literary Fiction, by William H. Coles: #BookReview.
Subtitled ‘A Manual for Writers’, this is a scholarly work that attempts to analyse what makes a story ‘literary’ rather than ‘genre’ and advises on how…
The Devil in the Belfry, by Edgar Allan Poe: #BookReview.
Until I read this short, I hadn’t realised how good Poe was at comic writing. This is a tongue-in-cheek dig at the horror genre that had…
The Solitude of Prime Numbers, by Paolo Giordano. #BookReview.
Translated from the original Italian, this melancholy novel captures the nuance and subtlety that can so strongly influence a young mind. The wrong thing said, the…
Till They Dropped, by Sue Knight, Reviewed.
Fantasy? Science Fiction? Magical Realism? This book is all of these. But it’s also a thoughtful, imaginative, and ultimately terrifying cross genre piece that stirs both…
Red Desert – Point of No Return, by Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli, Reviewed.
This is the first part of a four book series. I have a certain distrust of such books, if they fail to perform the function of…
