Joo's Book Reviews and Interviews

This is a short story that was originally published in the KUF anthology Hearts and Arrows.  It's a decent length for a short, definitel...

My 9th interview is with Cecilia Peartree, one of my favourite new authors.  Cecilia writes about the world of Pitkirtly and the 4th book in...

This is the third book set in the Pitkirtly village.  When I reviewed the second, I said it was better than the first.  Now I am saying the ...

This is not my usual choice of reading.  I tend to prefer lighter reads or serial killers.  This book is a novella about a dark place called...

My 8th interview is with Stu Ayris, the writer of Tollesbury Time Forever and very excited person if someone says they like his books.  Whic...

Yet another well written original story from Eric Christopherson.  I enjoyed his other two books and this one is possibly the best. In sho...

The seventh interview in my series is David G Pearce, author of 'The Girl on the Train' and 'The Vanishing' and has also had...

Happy Hour is a great romp of a chick-lit book.  It follows the story of Jane who turns out to be a lookie-likey of a very famous American c...

I absolutely adore Carl's The Time Hunters series.  Bernard and the Bibble seems to be aimed at a slightly younger audience. It kind o...

My 6th interview is with the mysterious man (?) known as Jim Chaseley.  Nothing is known of him  ..... until now How do you s...

This book is a medical thriller - bad guys want to take over the world, good guys have to survive and overthrow them. In the main this is ...

My 5th interview is with Shaun Jeffrey, author of many a scary book.  Although to be fair, The Kult and Killers aren't horror books, the...

Darren's usual genre is surreal sci-fi parallel universe type of thing, full of humour and madness.  I have read 2 of his books and they...

My 4th interview is with Ken Magee, author of Dark Tidings. How do you strike the balance between writing something you want to write...

The Time Hunters was the first book I bought on my Kindle and the first book I reviewed.  So why am I revisiting it?  Because Carl has issue...

My third Interview is with the lovely Sibel Hodge, author of some of the best chick-lit around How do you strike the balance between w...

Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard is kuforum’s March 2012 choice for bookclub read of the month.   This is another book with a lot of hype ...

In the second of my series of author interrogations, I interview Anne Brooke. Anne writes in a multitude of genres, some of which you wouldn...