I am very pleased to introduce yet another new feature for Books and Beyond Reviews – the all-new An Interview With… segment. Here, I hope to bring you short Q and A-style interviews with authors of books featured and reviewed … Continue reading An Interview with Thomas Mullen
Friday Face-Off is an idea originally thought up by Books By Proxy which I stole from the fantastic The Tattooed Book Geek. The idea originally was to compare UK and US covers based on an assigned theme each week and choose the … Continue reading Friday Face-Off – 2nd September 2016
My husband’s lover. They said her death was a tragic accident. And I believed them… until now. Carmen is happily married to Tom, a successful London lawyer and divorcé with three children. She is content to absorb the stresses of … Continue reading Undertow – Elizabeth Heathcote
This review is a little different to my previous reviews. Triple Shot is a collection of three novellas by three different authors all of them from New York. With that in mind, I will be reviewing each story individually, then … Continue reading Triple Shot – Ross Klavan, Tim O’Mara and Charles Salzburg
Twenty winters have passed since the Cataclysm brought down society and robbed people of their memories. Humanity, vastly reduced in numbers since the initial chaos, has started anew in Canal City with the aid of library books and steam technology. … Continue reading Skyships Over Innsmouth – Susan Laine
“It’s such a fine line with people, whether they’re playing dumb or being dumb.” ― Ben H. Winters, The Last Policeman The Last Policeman is the first book I have had the privilege of being accepted to read and review through … Continue reading The Last Policeman – Ben H. Winters
“Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying ‘Got rocks … Continue reading Men at Arms – Terry Pratchett
“Young man” he said, “understand this; there are two Londons. There’s London Above – that’s where you lived – and then there’s London Below – the Underside – inhabited by the people who fell through the cracks in the world. … Continue reading Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.” – Terry Pratchett … Continue reading Lords and Ladies – Sir Terry Pratchett
“What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, … Continue reading Small Gods – Sir Terry Pratchett
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