Reviews
The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman: “She has taken the late 18th Century, language and all, and pummeled life into it. The Fair Fight breathes, shouts and swears, confident in its form and bold as brass in its execution.” - New York Times Book Review
Season of Fear by Brian Freeman: "Season of Fear has it all…. It gave me enough gooseflesh on my back to last until Thanksgiving. Throw in a compelling and truly puzzling mystery that develops into a couple of mysteries, and the landfall of a devastating hurricane as a backdrop just for grins and giggles, and you have an ambitious, complex and eminently readable novel that will keep you reading all night long." - Bookreporter
Youngblood by Matthew Gallagher: “Thrilling, tragic, and darkly funny, Matt Gallagher's Youngblood is a brilliant portrait of command in the modern, morally bruising battlefield.” Phil Klay
Relativity by Antonia Hayes: "Relativity is a novel of assured and measured empathy, a story of familial love and familial hurt that is fair, honest and remarkably non-judgemental. Hayes is a convincing writer and a true storyteller: her characters are alive." - Christos Tsiolkas
The Girls by Lisa Jewell: "Lisa Jewell’s characters are so real that I finish every book half-expecting to bump into one of them. Modern, complex, intuitive, she just goes from strength to strength." - Jojo Moyes
Screening Room by Alan Lightman: “In a career that defies convention, Alan Lightman has never been shy about pushing boundaries. The power of Lightman’s work lies in his ability to ground the reader, whether he is making accessible an esoteric field or subject, or defusing the heated rhetoric around some emotionally charged topic with intellect and reason.” - LA Review of Books
Tenacity by J S Law: “Now and again a debut novel comes along that makes you hold your breath. Tenacity by J S LAW is one such book. It's authenticity rings true with not a false note throughout. Tense, claustrophobic, and totally absorbing, this book should be on every thriller reader's radar - or should that be sonar? Absolutely superb”. - Matt Hilton
Palace of Treason by Jason Matthews: “his spies are grittier and more human, more like those of John le Carré, and his knowledge of the inner workings of that world adds authenticity that other current writers simply can’t approach…This is another must-read for fans of the spy genre.” - Kirkus Starred Review
The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller: "Delightfully irreverent … very funny … this is High Fidelity for bookworms … Miller’s thesis is universal: we can all be enriched by losing ourselves among the bookshelves". – Telegraph
Ransacking Paris by Patti Miller: “The combination of literary history and domestic detail sets the book above its rivals. Any Francophile should love it”. Bookseller and Publisher (NF)
All this Life by Joshua Mohr: “Mohr’s narrative is by turns heartrending and humorous, with never a dull moment. Readers will love this cast of characters” - Publishers Weekly starred review
The Good Girl by Fiona Neill: 'Neill writes with verve, honesty and breath-taking insight. Utterly Unputdownable.' - Helen Walsh
The Game Believes in You by Greg Toppo: “As the parent of a young child, I began The Game Believes in You thinking of video games as a kind of menace. I finished it believing that games are one of the most promising opportunities to liberate children from the damaging effects of schools that are hostile to fun” - Times (NF)
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