Exit Part offers two very worlds featuring alternate versions of the same people. Emily St. John Mandel returns with more undestated visions of our future.

#SixOnSaturday for 26/09/2026. Pollinators and Projects.

The Tower of Tyrant by J.T. Greathouse is a thoughtful novel thay takes worldbuilding in new directions.

The Dust Don’t Work…

Once upon a time, I had a life of scientific research ahead of me. For whatever reason (mostly that I’m lazy), it didn’t quite work out that way. How much young me would have loved Scie…

#SixOnSaturday for 12/09/2026. This week I mowed the lawn!

An undoubtedly affecting tale of the horrors of war, but I ultimately felt emotionally manipulated.

In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire’s borders, where contagions abound and the b…

#SixOnSaturday for 05/07/2026. Looking back. Looking forward

A review of something I bought in 2018! Turned out not to be a favourite but it definitely has its moments.

Spoilers: NoneGenre: Weird/Cosmic HorrorFormat: HardbackSource: BoughtRating: Inducted (4.5–5★, Recommended) What if something was eating your memories? You were also aware that it was happening bu…

The Raven Scholar. An X Factor competition for the throne without a wow factor for this reader.

Publisher – Hodderscape Published – Out now Price – £10.99 paperback £5.99 ebook Win the throne or destroy an empire. Either way, it begins with murder. After twenty-four years, the Emp...

In ‘Netherwood’ Jake Arnott has created an unsettling folk-horror centred around art, chaos and the creative process.

‘The Deep and the Drowned’ by Ian Green is a seafaring fantasy filled deeply immersive worldbuilding.

‘Troofriend’ is a gentle thriller that explores the nature of AI, and the importance of friendship.

New covers for my first 5 novels.

Richard Swan's 'Infinite State' is excellent dystopian fiction with echoes of the Star Wars orginal trilogy and shades of Andor.

‘The Palace of Facts’ is another excellent What on Earth book brought to you by the team that gave us the ‘Factopia!’ series.

‘All the Colours of the Dark’ is a sprawling thriller set in late 20th Century America. Readable but overreliant on coincidence.

‘The Knight Watch’ by Thomas D. Lee sees the Knights of the Round Table take on Nazi Germany in this brilliantly reimagined tale of Arthurian Legend.

#SixOnSaturday for 18/07/2026. The dry continues, the garden feels like it’s in stasis.

A book by a book lover for book lovers. How we bibliophiles are shaped by what we read. Albeit from a narrow, middle class perspective.

‘Angel Down’ by Daniel Kraus is a masterful anti-war novel that well deserves its Pulitzer Prize.

Six on Saturday is a weekly meme originally hosted by The Propagator but now in the tender care of Jim at Garden Ruminations. Another heatwave on the way. This is now getting boring as well as frustrating. On the bright side a few of the things I featured last week have moved on significantly. Plus I had my first ever sighting of a hummingbird hawk-moth.

Another month has gone by. Here are three books I added to my pile for July.

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Set in the margins of a changing Britain, R.J. Dark’s ‘A Numbers Game’ an occasionally violent crime novel with a huge amount of heart.

#SixOnSaturday for 27/06/2026. A week of heat. Not much gardening done but there’s always something going on.

C.B. Everett treats us to identities within identities in ‘The Final Chapter’ a book that features a book with in a book. What’s not to love?

Solace House is a mindbending interdimensional mystery set in a house, a very big house, in the country.

‘Gliff’ by Ali Smith. A book that demands to be read multiple times.

#SixOnSaturday for 13/06/2026. An out of sorts gardening week and I’m struggling for inspiration.

A young girl is left to die in a wizard’s dungeon but finds a new home with the monsters around her in this humorous and heartfelt standalone epic fantasy from acclaimed author Gareth Hanraha…

The second book in Alan Moore’s Long London series, didn’t quite live up to my expectations, but is still a very fine read.

‘The Wedding People’ is a surprisingly thoughtful examination of life, love and relationships.