Another good quick read in this series of Dr Who stories released to celebrate the 50th anniversary in 2013.I think this book has captured the character of the third Doctor quite well and I could picture Jon Pertwee saying some of the lines as I read this book.This tale starts with a trip to a mu...
This review is probably going to be a bit lacking because I thought I was being clever by reading this book about the days in between Christmas and New Year in the days between Christmas and New Year.But well… I wasn’t.Thanks to eating, drinking, generally being merry and trying to decide how it ...
This review is copy-paste from the Charybdis. You can see it in it's natural habitat here :I knew right from the first chapter that this was going to be my eerie-fest of the month. I mean honestly, the story starts with… well. You’ll just have to find out.Tomas and Peter are humble woodcutters, ...
Llevaba años entre los libros que aún no leí, principalmente porque me decía cada que lo veía que debía de conseguir el primero para así poder entenderle mejor; pero la verdad es que no hecho el intento de buscarlo, así que decidí que era tiempo de leerlo y si no le entendía pues no sería el fin ...
I'm a fan of Sedgwick's spare style and his always interesting stories. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI, so I was interested in dipping into this story. Like some other reviewers, I wasn't sure I really knew Sasha, the main character, and what motivated her besides her brothe...
In the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris there are some extraordinary machines from across the ages of scientific invention. Here hangs Foucault’s famous Pendulum, whose gentle swings disclose the rotation of the earth, and here also sits another of his great inventions: a multiple contraption...
Once again my mind had been occupied with seeing Tabitha, seeing Mother, and England, and I’d been blissfully unaware of the nonsense going on behind my back. It was only years later that I learned some of the details. How someone in London had given orders to the Finnish police that I be arreste...
He was satisfied with his morning’s work, but in order to bring things to a head, there was one more testament he wished to obtain. It took him a quarter of an hour to come to Fuller’s Mill. The sound of the hammers pounding the wool in the baths of piss came from inside, and something of the sme...
It was a beautiful and hot day in early May, and we left his rather stuffy and dark rooms and walked out to the Backs. The trees towered above us, in full bright green leaf, and students and tourists eyed each other on the river. We saw none of that, as I told Hunter about the letter. He had all ...
Once, for my birthday, my mother gave me a book of poetry. It was a book of poems that she had written, because she was a poet, and she had written a whole cycle of poems about me. The first ones she had written before I was born, when she was pregnant with me, and the others when I was small. &n...
There was no obvious successor to Horn, just as there hadn’t been when he and my father fought. The difference was that no one really wanted the job this time. No man, that is.But before the tribe could even think of these things, there was the business of the departing dead to see to.We took Hor...
Wolff grinned at Anna. Anna stared at him for a fraction of a second, her eyes flicked to Sig for some explanation. “But here you are,” Wolff continued, drawing back slightly. “Did you bring your dogs back? You are very quiet.” Anna ignored Wolff and stepped toward Sig to help him up. “Are you al...