Even if you aren’t a fan of zombies, this is one zombie book that you shouldn’t run from. It won’t eat your brains or turn you into a zombie. I promise. This is a zombie book that redefines the world of zombies, so very well researched that after finishing Feed you can’t help but wonder [...]

Ask Noah, who filled his ark with every kind of animal. Ask the philatelists who’ve scoured the world for that elusive Penny Black. Ask all the kids who have shuffled around cold, windy playgrounds trying to trade their mountainous piles of tatty football stickers. Mankind has always had an instinctive, all consuming desire to compile [...]

“Nothing is true. Everything is permitted”. This is the central ideological tenet of Hasan, the Old Man of the Mountain who dictates the action and narrative of Alamut; the book that became the inspiration for the videogame Assassin’s Creed (which is, admittedly, how I discovered it and why I read it). It’s important to stress [...]

Guest Review by Author Mark Stone. Ever since George Orwell penned 1984, since Aldous Huxley gave us Brave New World, dystopian future sci-fi has been a staple in the English-speaking world. But how do you follow up such literary classics without resulting in a hashed up mishmash of the two? Surely it would take a [...]

For part-time history buffs, like myself, who like to know what happened, when it happened with a brief recount of why it happened without trawling through mounds of historical artefacts and textbooks, John O’Farrell has come to the rescue once more. His first history book took on the admirable and gargantuan task of fitting 2,000 [...]