Speculative
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CONQUEST by Nina Allan (BOOK REVIEW)
“Frank says information is corrosive, like acid – once you touch it, you’re changed by it, you find you’ve been burned. Not long after Frank went ... -
HIT PARADE OF TEARS by Izumi Suzuki (BOOK REVIEW)
Izumi Suzuki – Hit Parade of Tears (2023, translated by Sam Bett, David Boyd, Helen O’Horan and Daniel Joseph) “Hey, it’s pretty common these days. Some ... -
THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA by Ray Nayler (BOOK REVIEW)
The Mountain in The Sea Ray Nayler Insta: @raynayler @wnbooks Twitter: @raynayler Fear: How have the monsters learned to speak? Called “One of the up-and-coming masters ... -
THE TEN PERCENT THIEF by Lavanya Lakshminarayan (BOOK REVIEW)
“Perhaps the future is a joke, after all, and they should stop taking themselves so seriously.” “Absolute power is its own weakness. It is in its ... -
THE HOTHOUSE BY THE EAST RIVER by Muriel Spark (BOOK REVIEW)
“There isn’t any war and peace any more, no good and evil, no communism, no capitalism, no fascism. There’s one area of conflict left and that’s ... -
THE WHISPERING MUSE by Laura Purcell (BOOK REVIEW)
“You see, now, the beauty of tragedy? It has so many faces. Not all doom and gloom but nobility, honour and a hundred other qualities. You ... -
BERG by Ann Quin (BOOK REVIEW)
“A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father…” And with that iconic opening line, ... -
SKEIN ISLAND by Aliya Whiteley (BOOK REVIEW)
“I keep her trapped in my words. I hold her prisoner, and that is what she deserves” Aliya Whiteley writes across many different genres and lengths. ... -
THE BLOATER by Rosemary Tonks
“Are we fully adult, responsible pillars of society? Certainly; it’s simply that we’re allowed two or three safety valves nowadays, and rank silliness is one of ... -
EMPATHY by Hoa Pham (BOOK REVIEW)
“We have always been we. Then they forced us to become you and I.” “What is free will? Do we honestly have free will when we ...
