Currently reading ‘Light Matters’ by Vicki Goldberg
Currently reading ‘Light Matters’ by Vicki Goldberg
Kerry Hudson. Vintage. (256p) ISBN 9781784708603 I first heard Kerry talk at a Vintage Roadshow at Forum Books, Corbridge before Christmas, this didn’t put me off though 😉 and I was really fascinated by the concept of Lowborn. Earlier this year I went to another Vintage Roadshow and was pleased to be able to pick …
Lindsay Littleson. Cranachan Publishing. (200p) ISBN 9781911279440 Though the story does come with a well-known ending, The Titanic Detective Agency explores the story of the Titanic from a different angle. This is the story of Bertha and her dreams, travelling from Aberdeen to America she has to fill her time and sets up the titular …
Ian Haydn Smith. Orion. (224p) ISBN 9781786275639 The Short History of Film is a brilliantly concise review of film and film theory that explains quite a lot I didn’t know about this area of the arts. Broken into four areas covering genres, key films, movements, and techniques with each section giving a bite-sized explanation of …
Greg Howard. Penguin Random House. (256p) ISBN 9780241367087 I received an advanced copy of this from Penguin and was so happy when it arrived. I had been hearing whispers (…) of this book on Book Twitter for a while and wanted to see for myself what it was about. We follow Riley James through what …
Ewa Jozefkowicz. Head of Zeus. (208p) ISBN 9781786698957 In The Mystery of the Colour Thief Izzy is beset by a lot of problems in this story, her mum is in a coma in the hospital after a car crash that she feels is her fault, her dad is not coping at all, and her best …
Niklas Natt och Dag. John Murray Press. (416p) ISBN 9781473682146 The Wolf and the Watchman was one of my favourite books of 2019. As I’ve probably gone on at length somewhere else, I’m not a thriller/mystery reader by nature, but this is such a wonderfully engrossing and descriptive novel of 19th century Stockholm I was …
Adam Baron. HarperCollins. (256p) ISBN 9780008267018 Boy Underwater is the story of Cymbeline and his family, Cymbeline is nine-years old and his mother has avoided to teach him to swim in all those years. Then due to a school trip to the swimming pool the past unfolds itself into the present causing all sorts of …