The Fireman
They put down Draco Incendia Trychophyton on the death certificates, but even the Surgeon General called it Dragonscale. Or he had, until he burned to death. A plague is spreading across the world, no one knows how, but the infected…
The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle has been on my shelves unread for years yet I’m not sure I would have picked it up if it weren’t for book group. Josh had recently started it and given up and I’d…
Incoming: Illumicrate Edition
Hopefully everyone’s received their Illumicrates by now. I didn’t want to share on Instagram when it arrived as it’s really hard to avoid seeing things on there and it spoils the unboxing if you already know what’s in it. Half…
The Art of Being Normal
This is what I wrote: I want to be a girl. There’s been a lot of praise for the transgender content of The Art of Being Normal but I think it also deserves praise for depicting the class divide. David…
Five Ghosts: The Haunting of Fabian Gray
I thought the artwork in Five Ghosts was excellent but the first volume didn’t really do it for my story and character wise. The series was recommended to me on the London Bookshop Crawl so I imagine it’s one that…
Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour
Amy hasn’t been able to get behind the wheel of a car since the accident but her mother is moving her across the country, from California to the East Coast, and she needs someone to deliver their car. So she…
Shtum
When Emma and Ben agree to fake a break-up to help get their autistic son, Jonah, into the best school, father and son move in with Georg. Three generations of men; a son who can’t speak and a grandfather who…
The Road to Little Dribbling
On the cusp of becoming a British citizen twenty years after Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson sets off across Britain once again. He partly muses on how things have changed but it’s not a rehashing of his previous…
