Siang Lu has taken an experimental approach to his second novel ‘Ghost Cities’ to create a unique, completely original but slightly chaotic novel in which he relates the parallel modern-day storyline of #BadChinese with that of a fictional, ancient, deranged Chinese...
Fenella Woodruffe lives in a share house in London, where she has lived for the past eight years. Being the oldest member of the share house sometimes makes her wonder if life is passing her bye more rapidly than she would like. The antics of the younger housemates,...
It was inevitable that someone would write a response to Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’, which became a best seller in January of this year. A few months later, it came in the form of this small 100 page volume, Spare Us! A Harrody by well-known, best seller of...
Authors Tom Phillips and Jonn Elledge assert in their insightful book ‘Conspiracy’ that Conspiracy theories are all around us and none of us are immune from believing in them. Between YouTube, Covid and Donald Trump, the world’s media seem to have agreed that we...
Henry himself is indeed the focus of this story. In fact, the whole tale is told from Henry’s actions, thoughts and, emotions. By telling the story in this way we become intimately acquainted with Henry, so much so, that we know when he makes a statement, he may be...
Feeling somewhat frazzled by the everyday world and need to opt out into another dimension for a while? Step into the latest work from Alexander McCall Smith as he takes us, on a gourmand’s journey into France, this time, to yes, The Second Worst Restaurant in France....
Peter FitzSimons is a prolific author and a well-known character. His books are known for their honesty and humour. In yet another book of sporting tales, he has written of incidents that are mostly never recounted. These short stories show sportspeople at their most...
Set admits the turbulent times of what is billed as the largely forgotten war in America, the War of 1812, we met 10 year old Henry Phipps, a young man with much of which to cope in his young life. The death of his mother sets off a train of events which will prove as...
The author believes that we have become so bogged down in our search for happiness that we are creating and obeying more and more rules. At first, it would seem (by the title), that we should not bother about any regulations, but should be free and content. However,...
Now I hate to be sexist but, this is probably one book that could be seriously considered as a book for blokes; a serious dunny reading book that has a certain appeal. Some could even call it ‘toilet humour’, but it also, somewhere in among the abstract, could be...
Following on from his hugely successful, The Book of He, Berner sets his sights firmly on a different market, the marketplace known collectively as, ‘They’. ‘They’ , whom it would seem know everything, as ‘They’ often say something but ‘They’ do not always get it...
Artie and Bumshoe (not his real name of course!) somehow seem to have managed to get themselves involved with a particularly nasty group of criminals who, it appears, will stop at nothing to steal just about anything and everything, if there is some sort of money to...