Category: Book Reviews
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Run Walk Crawl: Getting Fit In My Forties – by Tim Lebbon – Book Review
At forty-one I was overweight and unfit. As I turned 50 I was thirty pounds lighter, having spent my fifth decade training for, and racing multiple Ironmans, marathons, and other crazy adventures. This account of that fitness journey through my forties includes broken bones, severe chafing, regular cursing, rubber and lycra, an element of masochism…
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The Original’s Return – by David Watkins – Book Review
Sergeant Peter Knowles has seen it all: in Afghanistan he witnessed death on a level that no-one should walk away from. Returning to Britain, he jumps at the chance to lead a small team in Devon. The task sounds more like a holiday; exactly what Knowles and his men need. The mission: watch Jack Stadler.…
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All the Fiends of Hell – by Adam Nevill – Book Review
The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the morning is no blessing. The handful of scattered survivors are confronted by blood-red skies and an infestation of predatory horrors that never originated on earth. An occupying force intent on erasing the remnants of animal life from the planet. Across…
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Dracula’s Guests – Vampire Anthology by Hellbound Books – Book Review
A century and a quarter ago, Bram Stoker unleashed the unbridled horror of Count Dracula upon the world. We can only wonder if he ever imagined the impact his creation would have on not only the horror world, but across the globe. Vampires have become a foremost staple of horror stories and have been represented…
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Meeting in the Devil’s House – by Richard Dansky – Book Review
A piratical rabbi who fights zombies. A man-eating Sasquatch in a top hat. An intrepid ghost hunter who dares meet the Devil on his own turf. These are some of the characters whose paths you’ll cross in A MEETING AT THE DEVIL’S HOUSE AND OTHER STORIES. Welcome to the imagination of Richard Dansky, where legends…
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The Flowering – by Alison Littlewood – Book Review
Dark bleatings, my beloved tribe! This week, we’re talking about another ‘Shadows’ collection from Black Shuck Books. Littlewood offers up 6 stories of peculiar fiction/horror, so let’s dive in to each one! The Zoetrope: A girl’s mother gives her a zoetrope, and it becomes an object that keeps them connected, even in impossible circumstances. A…
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Despatches – by Lee Murray – Book Review
Daily Star war correspondent Cassius Smythe is off to the Dardanelles to report on the Allied campaign. That is, if only the War Office will let him tell the truth. But after months in the trenches at Anzac Cove, Smythe learns that it isn’t just the Ottoman who wish to claim back the land, and…
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Twisted Branches – by Rachel Knightley – Book Review
Twisted Branches is a dark domestic noir on familial love, poisoned loyalty and how we knowingly and unknowingly mess up – and light up – each other’s lives. Artist and matriarch Effie clings to the house five generations of her family called home. But are its ghosts haunting her or is she summoning them? With…
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The Gateway in Apartment 8 – by Chisto Healy – Book Review
Sarah, an Asian-American college student moves into Sunnycrest Apartments because it’s a rare, affordable place. Strange things show up in her closet that don’t belong to her. Stranger still, they seem to come from the past. With the help of her psychiatrist, the girl she’s dating, and the quirky gay boy she met at a…
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