Non-fiction – paperback; Berkley Books; 320 pages; 2015. Earlier this year I watched the HBO documentary series The Jinx, which told the amazing true life story of Robert Durst, the son of a...
Fiction – paperback; Faber & Faber; 144 pages; 2014. In recent years, Deirdre Madden has become one of my favourite writers. She has 10 novels to her name, but I’ve only reviewed three of t...
https://readingmattersblog.com/2015/09/06/hidden-symptoms-by-deirdre-madden/
‘Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide’ by Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi Non-fiction – paperback; Verso; 232 pages; 2015. As you may gather by the title, I like my non-fiction as dark as my fiction �...
https://readingmattersblog.com/2015/08/16/five-fast-reviews/
Fiction – paperback; Faber and Faber; 288 pages; 2015. Review copy courtesy of the publisher. In recent years, Scottish writer Doug Johnstone has become my go-to author for fast-paced psycholog...
https://readingmattersblog.com/2015/08/12/the-jump-by-doug-johnstone/
Fiction – Kindle edition; Transworld Digital; 625 pages; 2013. Proof that my tastes are fairly wide-ranging and eclectic doesn’t come more obvious than this. Terry Hayes’ I Am Pilgrim is on...
https://readingmattersblog.com/2015/06/23/i-am-pilgrim-by-terry-hayes/