Review: XX, Angela Chadwick
XX proposes the idea of ovum-to-ovum fertilisation, of a world where two women can create life together without any male assistance. At its centre are lesbian couple Juliet and Rosie who […]
Science-Fiction
Review: How To Stop Time, Matt Haig
This was one of those books that I felt I had been hearing about for months before I actually read it. Reviews championed it as an example of ‘up-lit’, it […]
Review: To Say Nothing Of The Dog, Connie Willis
I picked up this one because I had heard it was set in Oxford, my own adoptive hometown, plus it involved time travel which is a concept I have always […]
Review: The Growing Season, Helen Sedgwick
Imagine a world where anyone can conceive a child. Anyone. In The Growing Season, Helen Sedgwick’s follow-up novel to her acclaimed The Comet Seekers, we are transported to alternative reality, one that […]
Review: The Boy on the Bridge, M.R. Carey
Like most people, I finished The Girl With All The Gifts with the feeling that there was more to explore. Now it seems that M.R. Carey has decided the same, with The […]
Review: The Power, Naomi Alderman
I feel that it’s important to state loudly and clearly at the very beginning that this is one of the best novels that I have read in years. Not only […]
Review: The Girl With All The Gifts, M.R. Carey
I picked this one up over two years ago, having no idea about the premise other than it seemed to be something that everyone was enjoying. The horror genre is […]