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  • 2.5 stars,  ghosts,  horror,  YA

    Review: ‘As I Descended’ by Robin Talley

    Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school’s ultimate power couple—even if no one knows it but them. Only one thing stands between them and their perfect future: campus superstar Delilah Dufrey. Maria and…

    January 13, 2018
  • ghosts,  historical fiction,  short stories

    Review: ‘The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales’ by Kate Mosse

    Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars A wonderfully atmospheric collection of stories from one of our most captivating writers, inspired by ghost stories, traditional folk tales and country legends from England and France. These tales are richly populated by spirits…

    December 30, 2015
  • Book Club Chatter,  ghosts,  horror

    Book Club Chatter #3: ’20th Century Ghosts’ by Joe Hill

    I was excited about this month’s book club.  I missed the meeting for An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth because I didn’t manage to buy the book in time, never mind read it.  I wasn’t devastated because I wasn’t overly…

    June 18, 2015
  • 3.5 stars,  ghosts,  historical fiction

    Review: ‘The Ghost Hunters’ by Neil Spring

    Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Welcome to Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England.  The year is 1926 and Sarah Grey has landed herself an unlikely new job – personal assistant to Harry Price, London’s most infamous ghost…

    January 4, 2014
  • cozy,  epic fantasy,  ghosts,  reading habits

    Wondering what to read next? There’s a GUIDE for that!

    Like any sensible British reader, I have a Waterstones card.  Books = points = more books. I can’t remember how I found it but it turns out that there’s a section on Waterstones’ website here dedicated to everything good and…

    April 22, 2013
  • ghosts,  horror

    Hallowe’en Recommendations for those of a Wimpy Persuasion

    Find your own scary cushion here If there is one thing I have learnt during my 26 years, it is that I am not good at reading/watching horror.  Years ago, I was bullied persuaded to go and see The Hills…

    October 31, 2012
  • 3.5 stars,  ghosts,  horror,  thriller

    Review: ‘The Man in the Picture’ by Susan Hill

    Rating:  3.5 out of 5 stars Synopsis A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver’s old professor in Cambridge. On this cold winter’s night, its eerie secret is revealed by the…

    May 11, 2012
  • 5 stars,  ghosts,  horror

    Review: ‘Dark Matter’ by Michelle Paver

    Rating: 5 stars out of 5 Synopsis (taken from Waterstones.com) January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he’s offered the chance…

    March 16, 2012
  • 4.5 stars,  ghosts,  gothic

    Review: ‘The Woman in Black’ by Susan Hill

    Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Synopsis Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral Mrs Alice Drablow, the…

    January 21, 2012
  • 5 stars,  Christmas,  ghosts

    Christmas Review: ‘Jacob T. Marley’ by R. William Bennett

    “There are three realisations mankind can experience that might give them cause for change.  First, remorse for what is gone but might have been in the past.  Second, a shocking awareness of where they are in the present.  Finally, fear…

    December 16, 2011
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