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  • 5 stars,  gothic,  historical fiction

    Review: ‘Jane Steele’ by Lyndsay Faye

    Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Like the heroine of the novel she adores, Jane Steele suffers cruelly at the hands of her aunt and schoolmaster. And like Jane Eyre, they call her wicked – but in her case, she…

    August 2, 2016
  • 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
  • classic,  gothic,  readalong,  thriller

    Thoughts on ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker

    When it was released in 1897, Dracula was praised as “the sensation of the season” and “the most blood-curdling novel of the paralysed century”.  114 years later and Count Dracula continues to haunt modern readers both in Stoker’s original words…

    October 26, 2011
  • classic,  gothic

    Thoughts on ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde

    Ordinarily, when I finish a book, I post in my usual ‘review’ format. But how do you review a book that is not only extremely well known but extremely popular? I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that…

    April 23, 2011
  • 3.5 stars,  ghosts,  gothic

    Review: ‘The Winter Ghosts’ by Kate Mosse

    Date finished: 17 February 2011 Rating: 3.5 stars Format: Paperback Source: Bought (December 2010, I think) Genre: Ghost story/historical fiction Published: 1 October 2009 The Synopsis The Great War took much more than lives. It robbed a generation of friends,…

    February 25, 2011
  • gothic,  mystery,  thriller

    Review: ‘The Angel’s Game’ by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

    What the blurb said: “In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man – David Martin – makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge…

    July 9, 2010

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