Pages: 221Date published: 22/02/2021Date read: 13/07/2021 Scarred by a tragic past, eleven year old Jamie Walker chooses not to speak. Consumed with jealous rage, Jimmy Gillespie is driven to violence. And John Macintyre awakens from a vivid nightmare convinced he is going to kill. Living high upon the Scottish hills, John and Sarah Macintyre enjoyContinue reading “Broken (Book #3) – R.V Biggs”
Category Archives: Fantasy & Sci-Fi
A Strange and Brilliant Light – Eli Lee
Published By: QuercusPages: 304Date Published: 22/07/2021Date Read: 12/07/2021 Lal, Janetta and Rose are living in a time of flux. Technological advance has brought huge financial rewards to those with power, but large swathes of the population are losing their jobs to artificial intelligence, or auts, as they’re called. Unemployment is high, discontent is rife andContinue reading “A Strange and Brilliant Light – Eli Lee”
Machines Like Me – Ian McEwan
Published by: Anchor BooksPages: 333Date released: 03/03/2020Date read: 06/06/2021 Set in 1980’s London, the story revolves around Charlie: young and reckless, and in love with his upstairs neighbour, the enchanting Miranda whose hidden, murky past hangs between them. He has spent his inheritance on the acquisition of one of twenty-four highly developed robotic humans –Continue reading “Machines Like Me – Ian McEwan”
Sudden Onset – Tom Dardick and Chris Dardick
Published by: Immortal WorksPages: 454Date released: 08/06/2021Date read: 19/05/2021 (ARC) UC Berkeley Professor of Microbiology, Dr. Mira Wallace, searches for ancient life in the most extreme environments on Earth. While sampling an ancient subterranean lake, the US Army summons Mira to investigate a mysterious biological threat in a Southern Utah desert. SONA (Sudden Onset NecrosisContinue reading “Sudden Onset – Tom Dardick and Chris Dardick”
The End of Men – Christina Sweeney-Baird
Published by: Borough PressPages: 416Date released: 29/04/2021Date read: 15/05/2021 Only men are affected by the virus; only women have the power to save us all. The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland – a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon,Continue reading “The End of Men – Christina Sweeney-Baird”
Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
Published by: Faber and FaberPages: 320Date released: 02/03/2021Date read: 22/04/2021 “The Sun always has ways to reach us.” From her place in the store, Klara, and Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, carefully watches the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopefulContinue reading “Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro”
Before The Coffee Gets Cold #2 – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Published by: PicadorPages: 192Date released: 17/09/2020Date read: 07/12/2020 In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. From the author of Before theContinue reading “Before The Coffee Gets Cold #2 – Toshikazu Kawaguchi”
Before The Coffee Gets Cold #1 – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Published by: PicadorPages: 213Date released: 19/09/2019Date read: 11/05/2020 In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold,Continue reading “Before The Coffee Gets Cold #1 – Toshikazu Kawaguchi”
The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights #1) – T.L. Huchu
Published by: Tor BooksPages: 336Date released: 04/02/2021Date read: 14/03/2021 When ghosts talk, she will listen… Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghost talker – and she now speaks to Edinburgh’s dead, carrying messages to the living. A girl’s gotta earn a living, and it seems harmless enough. Until, that is, the dead whisperContinue reading “The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights #1) – T.L. Huchu”
The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
Published by: Canongate BooksPages: 288Date released: 13/08/2020Date read: 15/08/2020 Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you couldContinue reading “The Midnight Library – Matt Haig”
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