Coming up with the Best Books of the Year is always a challenging task. The idea of ranking and rating books never really sits right with me, as so much comes down to...
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There is still almost month to go until the end of 2024, but already the books are beginning to pile up for 2025! I will be doing a post on my most anticipated titles...
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The latest edition of Paperback Fanatic (No. 49) by Justin Marriott just arrived, along the new Men’s Adventure Quarterly (No. 11), and both are terrific issues!...
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Smoke And Embers by John Lawton (Atlantic Monthly/Grove, May 2025) A new John Lawton novel is always a treat and in 2025 we are going to get the ninth book in his...
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The Enigma Girl by Henry Porter (Quercus, 7 November 2024) 2024 is finishing on a bit of a high note for spy fiction fans, with David Goodman’s impressive spy...
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As Benjamin Stevenson points out in the ‘Prologue’ to Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret, (Penguin, 22 October 2024), Christmas mystery stories, or...
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