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As can be expected from the first book of a series,  Lady of Light  sets the scene and introduces the reader to the main protagonists of P...

An extremely short novella and initially released in 1958 in one of the pulp magazines, The Planet Savers is understood to be the first ...

My first venture into the literary world of Amy Cross. It was a bizarre ride.  Cross appears to be an author with a prolific digital o...

Diligently working my way through all the unread books on my shelf, I finished Disordered Minds by Minette Walters a couple of weeks ago...

I must admit I decided to read The Rowan for two reasons. Firstly, I had never read anything by McCaffrey and secondly, judging by the cur...

I know, fictional Cadfael resided at Shrewsbury Abbey, but I couldn't resist the header. These guys are currently on display in a ...

First published in 1968, Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby will celebrate its fiftieth birthday in 2018. A good reason to start cele...

'Die Letzten Tage von Rungholt' by Kari Köster-Lösche In the coastal communities of Northern Frisia, an area now located in the ...

A 90s book. So nineties, it's unbelievable... Fay Weldon, Darcy's Utopia Darcy's Utopia ended up on my '2017 cl...

I picked this one up cheap from a second hand bookshop over ten years ago. Having made the decision to embark on a reading challenge that ...