You would be forgiven for assuming that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is just another drop in the vast ocean of crime fiction, indistinguishable from the previous monotonous and clichéd offering. It has all the typical features- the murder mystery, the engaging and charismatic protagonist, a monumental twist, and so on. Yet despite sharing [...]

Have you ever been confused when buying a book online thanks to all of the peculiar abbreviations and terminology? I know that I certainly have, and it’s a source of irritation when I have to go traipsing around the Internet in order to find out what each thing actually means. Because of this, I have [...]

A somewhat tongue-in-cheek look at art and nature, this witty dialogue serves to challenge common views on two seemingly straight forward topics. If there is one thing that constantly strikes me about Oscar Wilde, it’s his sense of humour. There’s a sort of dry sarcasm within this dialogue that I couldn’t help but to chuckle [...]

You know that game where the floor is lava and you have to get from one side of a room from another with the use of stepping stones? Well, that’s what I found my two young cousins doing not long ago. Reliving such a staple of childhood playtime I almost joined in, until I saw [...]

James Herbert’s attempt to write a neo-Nazi based thriller fared the same as the real Nazi’s attempt to create a super solider…it worked successfully…for about six seconds. I once said that I’d never review a bad book…and as it turns out, I’ve changed my mind.  I thought I’d take a different spin on things and [...]

Have you ever been confused when buying a book online thanks to all of the peculiar abbreviations and terminology? I know that I certainly have, and it’s a source of irritation when I have to go traipsing around the Internet in order to find out what each thing actually means. Because of this, I have [...]

Set in the contemporary Ukraine, Everything is Illuiminated tells the story of Alex, his Grandfather, and his Grandfather’s ‘Seeing-Eye Bitch’, Sammy Davies Jr Jr. Alex is a translator, and his father runs a company called Heritage Tours. This company allows Jewish Americans to come to Eastern Europe and unearth the stories of their families. This [...]

This book is on the New York Times’ best sellers list and is the first book of The Riftwar Cycle, a series currently 29 volumes long (and growing!). —– The name ‘Magician’ elicits some of the best literary memories I have. It is the start of a series by Raymond E. Feist so good I [...]

I have a rather sordid confession to make. I like Ted Hughes. I really really really like Ted Hughes. My mum read The Iron Giant to me when I was younger, and ever since I have absolutely loved everything he has ever done. I have just ordered his collected works from Amazon, a massive brick [...]

Having been a fan of the Pern novels for a long time, I finally got my hands on one of the ‘choose it yourself’ books, written by Jody Lynn Nye. After immersing myself in it for a number of days, I contacted Jody with regards to my University dissertation. Having passed the deadline however, she [...]