Our Life in the Forest, by Marie Darrieussecq, is an experimental future dystopian novel for those who loved The End We Start From. A future where the lucky ones have a ‘half’, an identical body lying in storage from which they can harvest spare body parts as needed. Less fortunate humans have a ‘jar’, just […]
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Review: Xx, by Angela Chadwick
Xx, by Angela Chadwick, has been described as a feminist dystopia. It’s not, really. It’s just our current society plus a new medical advancement. Although I can see how watching the ugly machinations of a discriminatory media frenzy unfold could be interpreted as dystopian fiction. Those of us who lived through the 2017 same sex […]
Review: The 7.5 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton, absolutely blew my mind. It reminded me of a rather elaborate – and involuntary – how to host a murder party. Aiden Bishop wakes up in the middle of a dark forest and hears the sounds of a murder close by. Escaping the apparent murderer, he […]
The Dinner List, Netflix and The Ship – Story Addict Podcast
This week on the Story Addict podcast I’m chatting about The Dinner List, by Rebecca Serle – an enjoyable, light contemporary novel involving living and dead people at a dinner party while the host tries to work through her issues with her ex-boyfriend and estranged father. All helped along by Audrey Hepburn, of course. Plus […]
How To Be Perfect, rural idealism and time travel – Story Addict Podcast
In this episode of Story Addict I have TWO new releases for you plus one of my all-time favourite speculative fiction novels, The Time Traveller’s Wife. Plus I’ll discuss the question everyone seems to be asking at the moment – have our kids forgotten how to read ‘properly’? Listen to Season 1, Episode 2 Listen here […]
Clem Ford, 2 kids for sale and a few vampires – Story Addict Podcast
In this episode of Story Addict I’m talking about Clementine Ford’s upcoming book, Boys Will Be Boys, as well as my thoughts on her first book, Fight Like A Girl. I’ll also tell you about a new release historical fiction, Sold on a Monday, based on the true Depression-era photograph of two children with a ‘For Sale’ sign next to […]