Currently reading 'The Cradle of all Worlds' by Jeremy Lachlan
Since I seem to be getting several submissions a day now I suppose I should ‘officially’ announce the reopening of Wicked Words Quarterly. It is a quarterly magazine for speculative fiction and for the relaunch I’m going straight into the December issue…
This is the first of Martin Stewart’s new podcast series ‘Four Books’ where he talks to other successful bookish people about their favourite four books. http://www.martinstewartwriter.com/podcasts-1/ In this podcast, I find out which four books my guests cherish above all others. They…
Collective Noun In linguistics, a collective noun refers to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are mundane and not specific to just one kind, such as the word “group”, which is applied to “people”…
My manager had been pressing me to widen my reading material and when she founf I had never read any historical fiction that didn’t have a fantastical element to it I was told in no uncertain terms to read this book, and…
I was hooked from the very start, the detail in this book would match the detail of the Miniaturist. This is, on the face of it, a story of love and marriage in 17th century Amsterdam, between a young, country girl and…
You know when something really smells, it sometimes requires a word other than smells, something to distinguish its ripeness, or malodorous nature. Why not try one of these? Acidic Acrid Antiseptic Arid Aromatic Balmy Biting Bitter Briny Burnt Citrusy Comforting Corky Damp…
This was recommended by the fine folk at Forum Books in Corbridge, and for that I’m very thankful. If you follow me on Twitter you may have already realised that I love the short story format as a vehicle for delivering beautiful…
A monthly feature where I do a round up of the books I’m most excited to read (or have already read and think you should be excited for). Fiction, non-fiction and children’s books are all included. Fiction XX by Angela Chadwick (9780349700243)…
This had (shamefully) been on my TBR list for a long time, I initially got it to join in with #PrimarySchoolBookClub but in the end didn’t have the time to join in. From the start of this wonderful book I was gripped…
The cover image along with the brief blurb in the Bookseller already had me intrigued about this book and when it came available to read I jumped at the chance. Set in a distant past the world has been shattered in a…
I was so late to the VOX party amongst my colleagues, and I have no idea why? It hits all the right targets for me a feminist dystopia looking at what could feasibly happen if we extrapolate from current trends. Vox is…