Adult Fiction

The Mediterranean island of Malta was for many years a strategic point on the map during times of conflict: in 1565 the civilisation of Malta faced the prospect of complete annihilation by the armies of the Ottoman Empire. Simon Scarrow’s latest book Sword & Scimitar gives an excellent fictional account [more...]

This book is about Tony Webster and his friends who get a privileged academic education in 50′s London. However, they get their real education from a series of devastating events. The truth about these is slowly revealed over the course of time. Fiction writing often takes this tack, however this [more...]

Still waters run deep with a writer like Helen Simpson. Famed for training her literary lens on the quiet dramas of domesticity; unhappy marriages wrapped in functionalism, harassed mothers gently loosing their minds in polite company, this new collection “In Flight Entertainment” both builds upon this reputation, and departs from [more...]

It has been only two years since Nobel Peace Prize winner and noted holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel published a novel. His previous offering, The Sonderberg Case, also translated from French to English by Catherine Temerson, was weighed down by philosophy, asking more questions that it could ever answer. Wiesel has [more...]

The Armour of Achilles is the third book in Glyn Iliffe’s Odysseus series, after King of Ithaca and The Gates of Troy. 10 years have passed since Odysseus’ parting with his wife Penelope from the small Island of Ithaca, 10 years since the beginning of the Trojan War and the Greek army is no [more...]