If you want an edge of your seat science thriller then you seriously need to try Whiteout by Ken Follett. When a canister of a potentially deadly virus turns up missing from Oxenford Medical days before Christmas, the head of security Toni Gallo does everything she can to find out what happened. Discovering a lab…
If you want to see the potential consequences of climate change then you should probably read The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. It opens in India during an extreme heat wave, so extreme that whole provinces end up losing power, and thus air conditioning, for days on end due to being unable…
We return to late Medieval England with The Red Queen, part of the Plantagenet and Tudor series by Philippa Gregory. This book follows Margaret Beaufort as she pursues what she is convinced is her destiny. From a very young age Margaret believes that she has some grand destiny as ordained by God, much like her…
Queste by Angie Sage is the fourth book in the Septimus Heap series and chronicles Septimus and Jenna’s attempt to rescue Nicki and Snorri from the past. Septimus has been working on finding a way to rescue Nicko and Snorri ever since they had been left in the past a few months ago. He has…
Angela’s Ashes is a heartbreaking memoir by Frank McCourt. It opens when Frankie is still fairly young, barely a toddler actually who was not even four, and his family still lived in New York. They were Irish Roman Catholics and it was the 1930’s and the height of the depression. Frankie was the eldest child…
I think this next book might have put me off of using a typewriter for a while. In The Unwritten Rules of Magic by Harper Ross, Emerson Clarke is facing a life potentially spinning out of control. Her father, a famous author who never finished his last series due to an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, has recently…
We return to a magical mystical alternate version of the French Revolution in A Radical Act of Free Magic by H. G. Parry, book two of The Shadow Histories. It picks up not long after the end of the previous book with the death of Robespierre. The mysterious stranger has now decided to support Napoleon…
Attack of the Fiend is the fourth book in The Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney. Picking up a few months after the previous book we see Tom, Alice and the Spook back in Chipenden where Tom continues his apprenticeship. When the Spook receives a visitor, who he also claims as a friend, Tom and…
Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly describes the truth of the pirate way of life. The book covers just about everything you might need or want to know about how pirates actually lived. It covers a wide variety of topics such as what might have led various people to becoming pirates and what became…
Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini is a historical fiction novel about Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley. The story starts in the run up to the 1860 election with Elizabeth working as a dress designer and maker for the wives of the various powerful men in and around Washington D.C. One of her more influential and close…
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