We Begin at the End

Crime thrillers rarely have child protagonists, but 13-year-old Duchess Radley will captivate readers of all ages in Chris Whitaker’s latest literary crime novel We Begin…

The Splendid and the Vile: A saga of Churchill, family and defiance during the Blitz

In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, works like this highlight the significance of political leadership and illustrate qualities leaders need to make dynamic decisions….

The Road: Uprising 
in West Papua

For a book less than 120 pages in length, The Road feels heavy in your hands. John Martinkus has produced a forensic account of the…

The Wisdom of Tea

We know that all we really have is today. The pandemic has illustrated this fact on a global scale. Our lives and the world can…

Deadliest Enemy: Our War against Killer Germs

This year’s pandemic has frequently been dubbed a “black swan” event; a cataclysm so unfathomable that no one could have predicted it. Except that one…

Weather

While not a tale of freak events and sudden storms, consider the weather in this subtle yet sharp novel to be more a story of…

Gathering Dark

When composing a cracking work of fiction, killer opening lines are an essential ingredient. The sucker-punch first words of Gathering Dark – “I looked up…

Homer’s The Odyssey

The COVID-19 era has seen the temporary closure of many bookstores and delayed the release of highly anticipated books. So, if social distancing and isolation…

The Spy and the Traitor

On a summer’s evening in Moscow, at the heart of the Cold War in July 1985, a man stands on the pavement of a busy…

The Medicine: A Doctor’s Notes

As a hospital general physician, Dr Hitchcock regularly holds life in her hands and fields more phone calls from anxious friends and family about their…