Joo's Book Reviews and Interviews

Tony Slater - the idiot abroad from That Bear Ate My Pants is back, but this time mainly in the Welsh Valleys in Treorchy. This book is ba...

This is the story of when Satan got kicked out of hell and goes to live in a Birmingham suburb.  He is forced to live in a flat in a conve...

The Davina Code is a full on frothy chick-lit story about girl meets boy accidentally ties boy up, both fancy each other whilst hating each ...

Barbara Silkstone writes what she calls "Fractured Fairytales" whereby she takes a tale and minces it up real good and  throws it ...

The Swimmer is David Haynes first book and as a début (albeit with an overhaul), this is a very good book. May and Joseph start investigat...

I'm not sure why I picked this up, nor why I started reading it, but there was something about it that drew me to it once I'd downl...

This is the first / pilot(?) episode of the London Town series which introduces us to Jackson Rockstone, a physicist / scientist who discove...

Ballet of the Bones kind of follows on from Mask of the Macabre in that it is set in the same time and is another quartet of creepy stories,...

Interrogating crime writer Nick Wastnage How do you strike the balance between writing something you want to write and writing somethi...

Now here's a book of two halves.  This is the tale of Jake.  He's a teenage boy with two parents and a little brother.  He has a nic...

I bought this book in it's 3 parts.  I thought it would be like the author's other trilogy, where I'd read one, then read anoth...

I now get to interrogate my new favourite author, Paul Fenton.  He'd love to join in a bit more, but is always late to the party. ...

I can officially say, now, that P.A Fenton is one of my new favourite authors.   This is the third book I’ve read by this author and is a ...

My next chat is with Kaska, another forum book addict. If you could live in the age of a setting in a book , which book & why....

I've read just about everything by this author and the themes are mainly serial killers / horror / paranormalish.  This one is none of t...

This is the second Maureen book.  This time Maureen is at home and at the book club meetings at the local library.   I found this a much...

This is the fifth in the Auto series of short stories.  In saying they are short stories, they are all a decent length.  I really liked this...

This is a nice gentle story set in 1950s London.  We join the characters Oliver Quest and Flora after first meeting them in the Hearts and...

This book is one of the joys I have had since owning my kindle. I would imagine that it is one of those that just wouldn't get a place...

This is the fourth book by Eric Christopherson and whilst on the surface it seems worlds apart from the others, insanity soon rears up. Th...