Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin StevensonAll the clues needed are here, some so subtle it’s easy to pass over them, but it all ties together in the end. For me, it’s the style in which it’s all presented that made this book so engaging. I’m not usually a fan of first person…
Road of Bones, Christopher GoldenA road named because of the number of prisoners who died there forced to work by the Soviet Union, bodies left in the ice in Siberia. I’ve read Christopher Golden before but can’t remember when I enjoyed one of his books as much as this. The unusual setting is as much…
This week I’m not writing a blog myself but draw your attention to a blog excellently written by the author Mitzi Szereto. I know Mitzi’s work, and I know how she edits. She’s not an easy editor to please, holding high standards for work she accepts. These days she’s currently focusing on her True Crime…
I wouldn’t usually have more than a two-part catch up of my reading list of a previous year, drawing attention only to the best, but I found it so hard to choose from 2020s selection. So here are the last highlights of a year of great reading… Sophie’s World, Jostein GaarderA magical, mystical blend of…
Continuing my look at reads of 2020… Two titles by Ramsey Campbell, the first at the start of his career, and the second far more recent. The Doll Who Ate His MotherThis is a tough book to rate, but when you understand this is Ramsey Campbell’s debut novel, the good and bad points fall into…
At the start of a new year, I look back at my reading of the year before choosing some highlights, so here are a few well-remembered books of 2020. I will begin with the Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski as the longest combined work I read this year: The Last WishAfter watching the first season…
As many of my readers may know, I’m one writer in the multi-authored Lethbridge-Stewart series, aka The Brigadier of Doctor Who fame. So I thought to look back at the book that launched the series by the author and editor, Andy Frankham-Allen. My most lasting memory of The Brigadier is an episode of Doctor Who…
Sharon Bidwell 