Advance review copy: Selected Shorts and Other Methods of Time Travel
Posted on Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
“To Travel in Time”! What does it mean? And how does it feel? We all wonder about it and consider it to be impossible. But is it really impossible to experience it?
continue readingBook review: Broken by Karin Fossum
Posted on Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
Karin Fossum’s Broken is blessed with weird locations, insightful art knowledge and a fantastic heroin addict personality. On the downside, the main character, Alvar Eide, is a tad dull and the plot is thin.
continue readingBook review: Roseanna, A Martin Beck Police Mystery
Posted on Friday, November 19th, 2010
Written in 1965, this is the first of ten novels centred around the Swedish detective inspector Martin Beck. But don’t let the date put you off: the book has aged beautifully, the writing still feels fresh, and the finish stays with you long after turning the last page – it’s like a good quality claret.
continue readingBook Review: The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
Posted on Monday, November 1st, 2010
The book is the fifth in the Harry Hole detective series to be translated into English. Jo Nesbo (50) is a Norwegian novelist and musician who is fast becoming one of the bigger names in the competitive and crowded marketplace for Scandinavian crime fiction.
continue readingAmazon launches Kindle for the Web
Posted on Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Amazon recently introduced a beta version of ‘Kindle for the web’, which allows you to read and share book samples or first chapters through your web browser.
continue readingBook review: The Pawn by Steven James
Posted on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
In today’s book review we are talking about The Pawn, a book written by Steven James. The pawn is a Psychological thriller and the first of a planned trilogy, called ‘The Patrick Bowers Files’. Special Agent Patrick Bowers is the main character in this book. He’s an FBI agent specialized in environmental criminology, tracking lawbreakers [...]
continue readingBook review: Freedom, a novel by Jonathan Franzen
Posted on Saturday, September 11th, 2010
Starred Review from Publishers Weekly – Nine years after winning the National Book Award, Franzen’s The Corrections consistently appears on “Best of the Decade” lists and continues to enjoy a popularity that borders on the epochal, so much so that the first question facing Franzen’s feverishly awaited follow-up is whether it can find its own [...]
continue readingBook review: The Passage
Posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
The Passage, a novel by Justin Cronin – The Passage is not just another ‘vampire’ thriller. In fact, you don’t have to be a fan of vampire fiction to love this remarkable tale. Cronin is a master story teller and brings depth and vitality to this captivating epic about a virus that nearly destroys the [...]
continue readingFree Kindle books on your computer or smartphone
Posted on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
As you may be aware, Amazon is offering quite a lot of free books which you can download to the Kindle , their electronic reading device.
continue readingStieg Larsson’s early work found
Posted on Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Good news for Stieg Larsson fans. According to Sweden’s National Library several unpublished science fiction stories have been found, written by the bestselling author who died too soon.
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