A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin Published by Orbit on the 2 April 2009. Review Copy
In A Madness of Angels Sorcerer Matthew Swift returns to London after being missing for two years and he wants revenge. Over 496 pages Kate takes us on a tour of the [...]
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Debut Review: A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin (Orbit)
Debut Review: Lost Boys by James Miller (Little, Brown)
Title: Lost Boys
Author: James Miller
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 3 July 2008
Review Copy
Synopsis
At an English Boys Private School children are going missing, they are dreaming and then disappearing but no one knows where they’ve gone.
Analyse/Comments/Thoughts
I wasn’t expecting to like Lost Boys, coming of age stories aren’t really my thing. I was expecting a Lord of the Flies [...]
Debut Review: Debatable Space by Philip Palmer
Title: Debatable Space
Author: Philip Palmer
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 24 Jan 08
Price: £10.00
A band of pirates kidnaps the daughter of the ruler of the universe and holds her for ransom. The trouble is ruler of the universe Cheo isn’t that receptive to their demands and their prisoner, Lena, isn’t what she first appears.
But this isn’t just a pirate [...]
Debut Review: In the Woods by Tana French
Title: In The Woods
Author: Tana French
Publisher: Hodder
Published: 14 November 07
Price: £6.99
Bought It
You can never escape your past or so they say. And Tana French plays with this idea in her debut novel, In The Woods. Rob Ryan retells the investigation into death of a small girl found in the same woods where he, but not [...]
Debut Review: The Pools by Bethan Roberts
Title: The Pools
Author: Bethan Roberts
Publisher: Serpent’s Tail
Published: 29 August 2007
Price: £10.99
Review Copy
Bethan Roberts has started her literary career with a disturbing tale of Middle England, mid-1980s when the death of a teenager, Robert, is the inevitably conclusion to the paths of many lives.
This is a hard book to pin down. Beth rebuilds the events that [...]
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