Book Review – The Life in Us: Paul McDonald reviews an absorbing and touching novel by John Lucas
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EVERY SEVENTH WAVE : Rachael Smart considers Tom Vowler’s tense novel set in the grim world of human trafficking
SPINNING TO MARS: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a collection of flash fiction by Meg Pokrass
DAY OF DAYS: Charles Rammelkamp admires a powerful fact-based novel by John Smolens about a school bombing in 1927
YOU’RE PRETTY GAY: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a short story collection by Drew Pisarra
Book review – LOSER: Thomas Ovans examines John Fuller’s well-observed story of 21st century angst.
THE ONCE AND FUTURE MOON : Louise Warren investigates an anthology of speculative fiction compiled and edited by Allen Ashley
C.J. Cooke, also known as Carolyn Jess-Cooke, is formidable in her achievements. An award-winning poet, novelist, academic and mother of four, her latest work is a text-book example for her creative writing students of how to write a tense page-turner that presses all the right buttons.
THE HOUSE WITH THREE EYES: John Lucas encounters a page-turner in John Harding’s atmospheric novel about mysterious events in Venice
Book review – THE PRISONER’S WIFE: this remarkable novel by Maggie Brookes is based on a true story and tells of an almost incredible deception successfully carried out during World War Two
Malcolm Carson reviews Remembered Acts, the most recent novel by John Lucas
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BALLET FOR MURDERERS: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a poetry and prose collection by Richard Wayne Horton