I was raised on a small hill farm in the west Highlands of Scotland. It lay only a few miles from a small village and only a few miles...

My thanks during the pandemic goes to the Yellow-tail and McGuigans Wineries of Australia, as well as Tennents lager (of Scotland) for...

This is Conn Iggulden doing what he does best, combining historical fiction with heroic fiction. I found this novel a treat (especially...

What do I say about this book other than a magical read. It is a little slow to start, drawing much from a fantasy form of "The Romance...

“The Other Girl” may not be for everyone but it is the book for me. I really enjoyed this tale, the spare writing, put me off at first...

I really enjoyed an article and mainly agreed with the premise but articles bemoaning the demise of traditional publishing are being a...

And so we walk onward, ever forward unto the mountains of madness, the brackish broken hills rear before us obliterating the night,...

An unusual novel, bought only because it was cheap for Kindle, it was surprisingly enjoyable. An alien invasion of a different sort, a...

I would never have imagined that such a book would have captured my attention, yet it did. Easy to follow and read, straight forward. No...

Directly to my left is a wrought Iron, wall mounted candle sconce, the design is Celtic arched at the top with swirling patterns of...

I loved animal characters as a child. Flicka, Even though I am allergic to horses. Buck and white fang from Jack London, Hazel from...

It is very easy to just "enjoy" a Terry Pratchett novel. The general mayhem and giggles hiding a deeper truth. I have read most of Mr...

May day, I don my green, jack the lad, Many a doxy I wish to bed, many a dream I wish to enjoy. Rough seafarers, may be misled, by...

I discovered the joy of fly fishing many years ago now. This witless contest between the rubber clad, cold footed angler and unthinking...

What was once the conduit for the tales told by Raymond Walker has slowly but surely become a book review page. This is simply for the...

Forget sci-fi, forget mayhem, forget the writer trying to fox the ultra intelligent hard sci-fi reader. In fact forget all you know about...

Perhaps this is just me but this did not offer the guffaws, the smiles, the titters and trumpeting laughs that many of Terry's books...

This may not be the perfect review from me as this is not a book that I would normally read. I bought it simply because it was...

A good review from me (mainly) on a good read. I picked up this novel “Holy Island” by LJ Ross simply because it was a cheap download for...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z52ufhOwBSU I was lucky enough this week to be interviewed on the Parrot Literary Corner, YouTube...