Sometimes books of short tales are hard to share with people. Some people don't like the format, and feel like they can be too literary or like a long joke, having to have a kind of punch line. It's the same kind of thinking that keeps people away from short film as a format too. …
Continue reading Live Show, Drink Included: Collected Stories by Vicky Grut
Curling up on a rainy evening with a classic English ghost story is a well loved past time, and Susan Hill has been known as one of the best of the genre. Her story The Woman In Black has been adapted for theatres in one of London's longest running plays, and also as a film. …
Sharp Objects is Gillian Flynn's first book, and has just been made into a TV series. It's the story of Camille, a journalist, who has made an uneasy peace for herself in her new life in the city. But her past in a small town comes back to haunt her when she's assigned to cover …
The first in a series of books about Inspector Gamache, these mysteries are set in Montreal, Canada, and surrounding areas. In this first book, Gamache finds himself in a tiny town called Three Pines after a beloved local woman is shot with an arrow. At first it seems like a hunting accident, but as the …
With it's cover styled to look like a classic 80's VHS cover, My Best Friend's Exorcism is playful nostalgia for the 80's era, it's music, TV, fashion, and most of all, it's dodgy horror films. And it's absolutely delightful. In the fourth grade, Gretchen moves to town and soon becomes Abby's best friend. Best friends …
Recently, one of my closest friends, who has been struggling with depression for years, told me that she has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. One of the things that she said that really resonated with me was that some of her friends had turned away from her and didn't want to know her anymore. It …
The Blackwell family have always lived in their beautiful home, a little apart and a little better than those around them. But since a family tragedy 6 years earlier, Merricat, her sister Constance and their aged and fragile Uncle Julian live there alone, avoiding contact with the hostile village around them. They live by a …
Continue reading We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson
This book is really beautifully bound if you get the hard cover edition. It's soft blue, with embossed gold flowers on the cover, and a swathed Victorian lady pictured in the centre. Perhaps it's slightly beside the point, but I do love a the pleasure of reading a beautifully bound volume. Kate Summerscale once again …
Continue reading Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary Of A Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale
A classic spy novel, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is le Carre's third novel and one that helped cement his name as one of the finest espionage novelists. This novel is the story of Alex Leamus. It's the 60's and he's been working in Germany, spying for Britain against the Communists on …
Continue reading The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John le Carre
When Lane Roanoke was 15 her mother killed herself, and she was taken to Kansas to live with her grandparents at their large country home. There she also met her cousin Allegra who told her that all Roanoke girls either run away or die. The home is beautiful, her grandfather is handsome and kind and …
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