
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
I love Edgar Allan Poe, and one of my favourite works is his murder mystery story 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'. It has been claimed as...

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton
There are many different ways to win a war, and this book chronicles some of the most unlikely strategies employed by Allied forces in their

The Mountains of Channadran by Susan Dexter
‘The Mountains of Channadran’ is the third book in the Winter King’s War trilogy.

The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
For this 'Mysteries on Monday' posting, I'm reviewing stories about the most famous fictional detective of all time.

The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
The 'Cambridge Companion' label is a byword for rigour and quality, so my expectations in purchasing this volume were set very high indeed.

Psycho by Robert Bloch
The title has become so synonymous with the smash-hit movie that it's easy to forget that, before Psycho received the Alfred Hitchcock...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
This novel was published in 1818 when its author was 20, and it was inspired by her visits to Germany and Switzerland. So far, so typical...

Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield
To say that I'm not particularly up on tech trends represents a considerable understatement, yet I know in myself that these developments...

What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
I thought long and hard about which vintage children’s book to review for my inaugural ‘Memories for Mondays’ post. It was so difficult.

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
This incredibly short novel is a mere one hundred and twenty pages yet it packs in striking characterisation and vivid setting.