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  • Book Review: Sharper Knives

    Sharper Knives by Christopher Fowler. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Sharper Knives is a collection of fourteen dark short stories by Christopher Fowler, first published in 1992, during the earlier part of his writing career. Ranging from the punchy and witty Norman Wisdom And The Angel of Death to the lyrical and beautiful Persia,…

  • Book Review: Devil’s Day

    Devil’s Day by Andrew Michael Hurley. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Devil’s Day is another masterpiece of folk horror fiction from Andrew Michael Hurley. Boiling the plot down to a single sentence, it’s the story of a man and his wife who return to his family farm for a funeral, and help with preparations…

  • Book Review: The Loney

    The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Andrew Michael Hurley’s The Loney is a novel about two brothers who make a pilgrimage from London to the stretch of Lancashire coast that sits between the Lune and Wyre estuaries, known as the Loney. There, over the Easter period, they stay in…

  • Book Review: Dolores Claiborne

    Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Dolores Claiborne tells the story of a sixty-six-year-old woman who has lived on Little Tall Island all her life. She may not have seen much of the world beyond the island, but she has certainly lived through some experiences. The novel is narrated by…

  • Book Review: Skeleton Crew

    Skeleton Crew by Stephen King. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. There’s no doubt that Stephen King is a master of his craft. Skeleton Crew is a collection of short stories written over seventeen years of his life, from just before he started college, aged eighteen, through to 1983, when he was in his mid…

  • Book Review: The Discomfort of Evening

    The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. The Discomfort of Evening is narrated by Jas, a ten year-old girl who lives on a dairy farm with her parents and siblings in a northern village in the Netherlands. Her brother dies after falling through ice while skating, and the…

  • Book Review: Normal People

    Normal People by Sally Rooney. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Normal People is the story of Marianne and Connell who grow up in a small town in the west of Ireland. The novel covers their relationship over four years as they finish school and go on to study at Trinity College in Dublin. Reading…

  • Book Review: Friend Request

    Friend Request by Laura Marshall. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Friend Request is the story of a woman who receives a Facebook friend request from a girl she used to know at school. A girl who died twenty-five years ago. As soon as I heard about this book, I knew I had to read…