Just Beam The Words To My Brain!

by Lucy

When are scientists going to get off their bums and invent a behind-the-eye or visual cortex Kindle? I have got very little reading done this week due to being tired, and disobedient eyes.… Continue reading →

Voices and Balconies – the last of the Nordic Noir.

by Sarah

It’s the time of the year when, on opening the back door to let the sunshine in, it’s not uncommon to find a stray sheep or two grazing on our lawn. Spring has… Continue reading →

‘Rupture’ by Ragnar Jonasson – Watch out, it’s contagious!

by Sarah

If you’ve read my reviews of Snow Blind, Night Blind and Black Out you’ll know that if anything was going to test my book-buying ban, Rupture (translated by Quentin Bates), the latest edition of Ragnar Jónasson’s… Continue reading →

Should I go on a Reading Diet?

by Sarah

At New Year I frantically scribbled lists of possible books I might read over the course of the year. I tried to include a variety and left plenty of room for random choices,… Continue reading →

Fed up of no snow? Try some Ice with a Slice (of family dysfunction).

by Sarah

As the nights draws in each year, weather predictions start to appear about the forthcoming winter. The next one is always going to be ‘the big one’ with projections of record-breaking snowfall, plummeting… Continue reading →

Ashes to ashes: Ragnar Jonasson’s ‘Black Out’

by Sarah

I discovered Ragnar Jónasson’s Dark Iceland series (translated into English by Quentin Bates) earlier this year. Frustrated by the lack of winter snow here in grey, wet, West Wales, I revelled in the… Continue reading →