Reviews

A list of what I’ve reviewed so far, updated reasonably regularly. Please note, books beginning with ‘The’ will be under ‘T’. Also note that some of these reviews are several years old, I like to think I have matured somewhat in my interests and writing since.

A

• A Bear Called Paddington (Michael Bond)
• A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
• A Kill in the Morning (Graeme Shimmin)
• An Abundance of Katherines (John Green)
• Agent Zigzag (Ben Macintyre)

B

• Baby Boomer Reflections (Fred Arnow)

C

• Can We Trust the BBC? (Robin Aitken)
• Child 44 (Tom Rob Smith)
• Children of Charlecote (Brian Fairfax-Lucy and Philippa Pearce)
• Conspiracy 365-February (Gabrielle Lord)

E

• English Proverbs Explained (Ronald Ridout and Clifford Witting)

F

• Fatherland (Robert Harris)

I

• I am a Dalek (Gareth Roberts)
• If England were Invaded (originally titled The Invasion of 1910) (William Le Queux)
• I’m Still Standing (Fabrice Muamba)

J

• Justice for Hire (Rayven T. Hill)

O

• Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
• Order! Order! (Robert Rogers)

P

• Paper Towns (John Green)

S

• Service of all the Dead (Colin Dexter)

T

• Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
• The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
• The Chrysalids (John Wyndham)
• The Etymologicon (Mark Forsyth)
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
• The Hollow (Agatha Christie)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
• The Machine Gunners (Robert Westall)
• The Medusa Project-The Set Up (Sophie McKenzie)
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
• The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchanan)

Lists

• Best Book Covers of all time (part 1)
• Best Book Covers of all time (part 2)
• Best Book Covers of all time (part 3)
• The Good, the Scary, and the Scarring: 10 Creepy and/or Terrifying Classics-guest post by ekpreston

Author posts, guest posts, and interviews

• The Good, the Scary, and the Scarring: 10 Creepy and/or Terrifying Classics-guest post by ekpreston
• ‘We hear from ‘Time’ person of the year about his debut book’-guest post by Fred Arnow, author of Baby Boomer Reflections
• ‘Guest post: Mathematical Allusions in Sherlock Holmes’-guest post by Abyssbrain
• ‘Interview with fellow blogger and debut author Ken Decroo’–blogger and author of Almost Human
• ‘Guest post: What Is My Calling?’-guest post by Andrea R Huelsenbeck