Relight My Fire continues the great series based around a weird newspaper called The Stranger Times. I’m very grateful to the publishers and Netgalley for an ARC. The book is due to be published later this month (Jan 24th). Relight
Best Book of the Year 2023
So this is it. Of nearly seventy fiction and non-fiction titles I’ve read this year, which is the best book? Which ones will I be recommending, or have I been recommending, at my Craft Fair stall? Given that I’m still
Book Review | Loot by Tania James
Loot by Tania James came to me as an ARC from netgalley and the publishers. I thank all the publishers who have sent me copies this year – there have been a lot of them and I’ve mostly enjoyed them.
Book Review | Juicy Ghosts by Rudy Rucker
Juicy Ghosts has been sitting on my Kindle for about eighteen months, and I’d earmarked it for this year’s J in the Alphabet Soup Challenge. A nice weird conclusion, really! I got it in a storybundle and then got some
Book Review | Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Untamed Shore came to me in a Storybundle. I usually get scifi or fantasy, and sometimes expand my mind a little by getting collections from international authors. So when I started reading this book, I was expecting something like Mexican
Book Review | Kiwi and the Missing Magic (Kiwi series #2)
I read Kiwi in Cat City a long time ago, and it’s taken a while to return to this lovely, funny, and highly imaginative series. It’s a first class read for middle graders, and adults with a sense of humour
Book Review | The Lost Steersman (Steerswoman #3)
The Lost Steersman continues the series I’ve been enjoying so much, following the Steerswoman and the Outskirter’s Secret. The Lost Steersman (Steerswoman Series #3) by Rosemary Kirstein How do you find a person you have never seen, or have never
Book Review | The Wife, the Mistress, and the Guinea Pig….
Yes, you got me at guinea pig. Don’t worry, there is only one guinea pig in this collection of stories. But there are also dogs, cats, and possibly sheep. Thank you to Barb Taub for inspiring her U3A group and
Book Reviews | The Emperor’s Edge #8 and #9
Over the years I’ve read all seven of the Emperor’s Edge series, Lindsay Buroker’s wonderful alternative universe with some elements of steampunk and other of scifi. It starts when Amaranthe is kicked out of the Emperor’s law-enforcers for something she
Book Review | The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch seems to me to be suitable review matter for Halloween weekend! This is another book which caught my eye on Netgalley. So many of them seem just the same as each other. This
Book Review | She’s a Killer by Kirsten McDougall
She’s a Killer caught my eye as it went though in a list from Netgalley. New Zealand, climate refugees, and a thriller to boot. Sounded good. And refreshing. I needed something refreshing – this was it. She’s a Killer by
Book Review | A Coastal Corpse by Rebecca M Douglass
A Coastal Corpse is the first in a new series from Rebecca Douglass, whom you know well by now, I hope! I adored the Pismawallops PTA cosy mysteries (Death by Ice Cream etc), and this looks set to be another
Book Review | Vet at the End of the Earth
Vet at the End of the Earth is the memoir of Jonathan (aka Joe) Hollins, a British vet who took up an internship in one of the British Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic, and somehow kept finding himself offered
Book Review | The Bone Chests by Cat Jarman
The Bone Chests are in Winchester Cathedral. They’ve been there for over a thousand years, with a bit of a furore during the Civil War in the 1600s. Cromwell’s troops have a lot to answer for. Cat Jarman takes an
Book Review | Surviving Transphobia
Surviving Transphobia is not the sort of book I usually read. I probably wouldn’t have picked it up at all had it not been for my friend, who is coming to terms with the transitioning of her youngest child. I