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Based on notes left by the late Wilbur Smith, Prey Zone automatically draws the reader in with...
In terms of how the story is told and the way the text and drawings are laid out, this book uses...
Best of Friends is divided into sections set in Karachi 1988 and London 2019 (as well as a brief...
Although some translation for the Spanish phrases would have been helpful, the author doesn't get...
Even though this is a children's book, and is clearly intended to be as accessible as possible...
The World at Your Feet gets off to a poetic start ("Who? What? Where? Why? I don't know, but I'll...
The beginning of Waking the Witch reads like an episode of Long Lost Family as Ivy, who grew up...
Vivid is the first word that springs to mind about this book (both in terms of the eye-catching...
This wasn't the easiest book to get into - although to be fair that was more to do with some of...
The front cover of Nightcrawling might be lurid pink, yet that fresh and summery image is out of...
Bad Things Happen Here follows the story of Luca, who lives in the idyllic island of Parris which...
The plot outlined in the synopsis of Thea and Denise, as well as the film poster style of the...
The latest in the Ration Book series begins with a prologue which takes the reader back to...
Black Mamba is a riveting book that - once you start reading - is hard to put down, with the...
As a non-fiction reader at heart, I was looking to forward to reading Portable Magic but, at the...
Home: My Life In The Universe is written in the first person and told from the point of view of...
This book is very much a case of writing what you know; both the author and Lucy (the central...
Some of the characterisation in Let's Pretend can come across as a bit cliched; for example, when...
Perhaps the best way of describing The Quickening is that it's a bit like The Handmaid's Tale in...
Remember Me deals with two delicate subjects - disappearance and dementia - which aren't easy to...
The calmness which radiates from the simple design and warm colours of No Land to Light On's...
Mouth to Mouth is written as a conversation at an airport between the narrator, who is a "cult...
Max Counts to a Million is told from the point of view of the aforementioned eight-year-old title...
Can a mysterious, super-sophisticated matchmaking service that relies on a complex series of...
Our Country Friends sounds up-to-date in terms of being set in March 2020, where a group of...
It Could Never Happen Here immediately breaks the picture perfect image of a community primary...
If you're unfamiliar with The Thirty Years' War, or find things like character and/or information...
"If she'd turned off her phone, instead of listening in, perhaps no one would have died..." is a...
The opening chapters are very effective when it comes to the different characterisation of the...
A Memory For Murder doesn't beat about the bush to begin with; after a first chapter (when a...
There's quite a lot of timeline switching going on in the early chapters of A Woman Made of Snow...
"A Labour Party promising that taxes won't go up for nurses and teachers is important, but...
The point of view in How To Kill Your Best Friend switches between Georgie and Bronwyn, who have...
As soon as you set eyes on the front cover, with the striped pyjamas on the barbed wire, you are...
A Passion For Poison is a forensic account of the life and crimes of 'Teacup Poisoner' Graham...
Set in the author's native Cyprus, this book tells the story of Nisha - a migrant from Sri Lanka...
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