Review – The House on Rye Lane by Susan Allott
“The House on Rye Lane” entwines timelines into a chilling narrative, where a house in Peckham exudes dread, ensnaring characters in its eerie curse. Recommended.
“The House on Rye Lane” entwines timelines into a chilling narrative, where a house in Peckham exudes dread, ensnaring characters in its eerie curse. Recommended.
That Self-Same Metal” offers a mix of history and fantasy in 1600s London. Join the adventure and find out more about this magical twist on our world
This is a book with the focus on children. Yes they are technically teenagers, but who are held accountable as adults. Children who are fulfilling adult obligations within their homes and on the streets. Even at school there is only a cursory attempt to treat them as minors. Femi Fadugba takes these issues and more, and crafts a a book that crosses genres, it is fantasy, it is science fiction, yet it is poignantly contemporary.
This new addition to the canon is suitably reminiscent of the original stories. Prepare to be dumbfounded by Sherlock Holmes prowess and deductive skill with suitable support from Dr Watson
Kissing Emma is an accurate and disheartening representation of current stories you hear time and time again in the news: young people caught up in a spiral of poverty, addiction and/or domestic violence with very few positive options to escape. These shouldn’t be familiar stories, we shouldn’t be desensitised, but we are.
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo eloquently shows that that love, abuse, the whole spectrum of the human condition is the same and gives no quarter for ethnicity or gender. Her understanding of human beings and ability to convey the complexity of human thought, behaviour and action, through a multifaceted, nuanced depiction of race and relationships in an accessible way, is a triumph.
This was a pleasant easy read that wasn’t too taxing, good to pick up and read for short bursts.