Joo's Book Reviews and Interviews

The Sword of Ages is the fourth instalment in The Time Hunters series.  This time Becky, Joe and Uncle Percy are on the trail of a sword in ...

Katie Stewart not only writes imaginative books, but also designs magical covers How do you strike the balance between writing somethi...

This is a silly story about the ludicrousness of office life.  Kind of. Clive and Sam are mates, who met when they started working togethe...

Look Behind You is a departure from the normal Sibel Hodge fare of sassy chick-lit.  This one is a psychological thriller that is much deepe...

Madrick, Tung and Michael, two wizards and one computer wizard, are back for the third part of the trilogy. As soon as I settled down to r...

This is the sequel to the fantastic Clovenhoof, but this time Jeremy aka Clovenhoof, aka Satan is joined by the Archangel Michael.  Michael,...

Venetia comes across a photo of her grandfather and recalls his tales of the shop in the village of Bumpkinton he worked in when he was a yo...

Here's a guy I don't think I'd like to hang out with.  I don't fancy rock climbing, 1,000km strolls,  or sleeping in a camp...

This is the sequel to My Granny Writes Erotica, where granny, Betty Berry, writes an extremely successful erotica novel.  Betty is a middle ...

Off the KUF 3 is a collection of 6 novellas by some of my favourite authors Adventure on the Scotch Express by Cecilia Peartree This was ...

This story is a little different to the author's recently released books in that it is mostly set in the present.  Bobby Moreton's f...

This is the seventh episode of the wonderful Pitkirtly series.  I can't believe it's up to number 7 and Cecilia's stories are st...

Tony's back and this time he has kangaroos to contend with.  And falling in luuuurrve.  I'm not sure what's more scary for him. ...

This starts off as what seems to be a run of the mill 70s Glasgow police procedural.  It is John's first week in CID, where the other of...

I started reading this without paying attention to the blurb as I like this author and will read whatever he writes.  The title is Infested ...

Erasmus, a physics and history teacher, has designed himself a time machine.  He goes back in time to meet Robin Hood just because he can. B...

Beyond belief is the second outing for Emily Castles.  This time she is invited to attend a conference of psychics and the like and report o...

Here is my friend Helen.  One of the biggest lover of reading (apart from me) that I know, although I haven't got her into indies yet a...

It's a year after Grace was raped by her (now ex) boyfriend and she still can't cope.  A chance meeting with Ben, a councellor, make...

Hugh Howey has taken time out his extremely busy schedule to go under my spotlight.  Hugh is the author of the Silo series of books which s...