North Korea Journal by Michael Palin (2019) Michael Palin is (at time of writing) 76 years of age. His career as a comedian, actor and adventurer of sorts has taken him across Africa, to both Poles, through the Himalayas, Latin America and now into The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). This book is his […]
The House On Paradise Street by Sofka Zinovieff Antigone Perifanis lives in Russia in 2008. She’s Greek by birth but was forced to leave her home many decades previous due to her strong Communist beliefs. She was forced to leave her only child behind, a son whom she named, Nikitas. Now, some 60 years later, […]
The Nowhere Man by Greg Hurwitz Orphan X now has a name, it’s Evan Smoak. As a boy taken in by a US black ops training program, Smoak was educated in every skill necessary to become an alpha hit man, a career he undertook very successfully. But life moves on and Smoak decided that he’d […]
Fever by Deon Meyer It’s our near future and the world as we know it has come to an abrupt halt. It was a fever that brought an end to our global societies, an unexplained fever. Few survived, and of those who did even fewer made it through the Darwinian regression that followed. Thirteen-years-old Nico […]
Out Of Sight by Elmore Leonard (1996) Jack Foley had an unfortunate bust. He was caught ramming a car after having just robbed a bank. He found himself in a Florida prison looking at hard time but with a reputation as a famed bank robber to keep him relatively safe. His friend Buddy is already […]
The Night Window by Dean Koontz Jane Hawk is a wronged woman and she’s angry. The organisation that murdered her husband, threatened her little son and forced her from the FBI are currently hunting her. They do not know what they’ve let themselves in for. Don’t piss off an FBI mum, even a former one. […]
The Warehouse by Rob Hart (2019) It’s a bleak world as corporations grow in strength to effectively govern the planet. In the US, the foremast Capitalist enterprise is known as Cloud. It’s a retail behemoth that dominates all aspects of life there. If you manage to secure a place in the workforce, you stand to […]
Quot libros, quam beve tempus – (so many books, so little time) Every year multitudes of books are published across the world. Each is a window into an author’s mind. Some of those insights are beautiful, majestical, bountiful, even magical. Others are written by Clive Cussler. There are so many books out there that it […]
Going Solo by Roald Dahl Roald Dahl is one of the world’s favourite children’s authors. He is responsible for stories such as The BFG, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. But he was not always a writer. He was also an adventurer and RAF pilot who fought in World […]
Humans, Bow Down by James Patterson & Emily Raymond (2017) It’s a bleak and dystopian future where the planet is under the control of androids. These callous machines have slaughtered most of humanity and left the rest in virtual slavery, or in hiding. Six is a teenage girl who lives on the Res (Reservation), a […]
King Of Spies by Blaine Harden Donald Nichols was a working class boy who came from a troubled background in pre-Second World War United States. His mother ran out on his father when Donald was still very young, and left her husband to raise four bewildered sons. As a result, David Nichols grew up hungry […]
Wrecked by Joe Ide Isaiah Quintabe, or IQ for short, is a black private investigator in East Long Beach, California. He has a quirky way of solving crimes and taking payment. His clients include local members of the working class community he hails from. They pay him in favours, services and reindeer jumpers. IQ has […]
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