Category: Book Review: Fiction
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Truly Madly Guilty
“There is no special protection when you cross that invisible line from your ordinary life to that parallel world where tragedies happen.”
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Mostyn Thomas And The Big Rave
The dark, twisted, and sometimes hilariously ridiculous world of drugs, desperation and rave culture. All of this, somehow, without ever being too morbid.
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The Hurtle Of Hell
Before reading the novel, I never expected to be using the phrase “religious banter”, but here I am.
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The Kite Runner
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.”
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The Golden Orphans
A novella packed with the detail, characterisation and flair of a doorstop-sized literary thriller.
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Never Let Me Go
“The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.”
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Mothlight
“I could follow her logic and the way it worked just from the photograph, briefly falling into a memory once more that suggested that I myself had taken the photograph.”
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May
A day in the life of a woman with dementia in a home, interspersed with flashbacks of people in her life.