Disclosure time. On our first outing to a bookshop since lockdown in March, I was quite clearly not concentrating properly. As I excitedly browsed real books, as opposed to online shopping, I thought I heard the bookshop owner say “The latest from John Grisham”. My husband heard “The latest Camino …
This eerily prescient book about a pandemic that shuts down London has a fascinating back story. Peter May wrote the novel in 2005, but it was rejected by publishers as being too unrealistic. So Mr. May put it in his Dropbox and moved on to other projects. It was only …
This psychological thriller is an interesting read, though a little patchy in parts and perhaps a little uneven. There is a wealth of detail given to us in the opening chapters of the book, the minutiae of family life, of office life, of streets, of playground politics – and the …
“You want to believe your husband. She wants to destroy him” And with these words on the front cover of this suspenseful psychological drama, we are led into a world of marriage and affairs and honesty and memories. Of crime and secrets. Of shame and retribution. Sophie and James met …
The expression “I could not put this book down” isn’t one I very often use, because it needs to be kept for the real McCoy. For a gripping page-turner that absorbs you and makes you want to read faster and faster to see what happens next, whilst simultaneously making you …
Nothing like your kid sister leaving behind a big fat thriller she’s finished – and a hardback copy, to boot. Such a joy, in this Kindle world. Let me state upfront that I haven’t read any books by Tim Weaver before. Dunno if that somehow coloured my judgement. Shortly after …
I started 2020 with this sensational book, and what an amazing tour de force it is. This is fiction writing at its finest, inter-weaving stories that take place 100 years apart, yet parallel each other and then converge. At the start of “The Martian Girl”, we meet Jean, a young …
Having just read “This United State”, moving straight to “Dragonfire” was another disturbing look at what could happen in the ambitious world of politics in which we live. What made this book even more fascinating is that it centres on a part of the world where I live, Asia, and …
Not quite sure how or why I’d never read any Colin Forbes before. Bit of (probably unnecessary) scene-setting before I start. This big, satisfying chunky novel was bought years ago, in a second hand bookshop in Johannesburg, when we lived there, and has travelled back to India with us, and …
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