Europe stares into the abyss. Plague and famine stalk the land, monsters lurk in every shadow and greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions. Only one thing is certain: the elves will come again, and they will eat everyone. Sometimes, only the darkest paths lead towards the light. Paths on which the righteous… Continue reading The Devils by Joe Abercrombie – An Audio Book Review| Swords & Spectres
Nobody liked Colonel Protheroe. So when he’s found dead in the vicarage study, there’s no absence of suspects in the seemingly peaceful village of St Mary Mead. In fact, Jane Marple can think of at least seven. As gossip abounds in the parlours and kitchens of the parish, everyone becomes an amateur detective. The police… Continue reading The Murder At The Vicarage by Agatha Christie – A Book Review| Swords & Spectres
As any reader of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring — and popular — weapons of choice for a scheming murderer. It can be slipped into a drink, smeared onto the tip of an arrow or the handle of a door, even filtered through the air we breathe. But… Continue reading A Taste for Poison by Neil Bradbury – An Audio Book Review| Swords & Spectres
Drekki Flynt is in trouble…again. Believed lost after falling into the deadly maelstrom known as the Eye of Testudinous, Evtorr, one of Flynt’s old crew, is found alive and well. Kind of. He’s raving mad, won’t shut up about the fabled Dead Air, and worse, shadowy assassins from Ulgu seem dead set on making sure… Continue reading The Ghosts of Barak-Minoz by Guy Haley – An Audio Book Review| Swords & Spectres
How to be a Victorian – a time traveller’s guide to Victorian Britain by the BBC’s Ruth Goodman. We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a com…| Swords & Spectres
1920s Laugh-out-loud Christmas Cosy Anty Boisjoly unwraps the peculiar case of the war hero who visits old friends on Christmas morning — after being murdered on Christmas Eve. In The Case of the G…| Swords & Spectres
We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn’t win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little bl…| Swords & Spectres
Anty Boisjoly is back to fill the gap that overlaps between Ruth Rendell and PG Wodehouse, and where Jerome K Jerome meets Dorothy L Sayers. The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine is another mystifying, …| Swords & Spectres
It is the most famous military installation in the world. And no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside of it. Until now. This is the first book based on interviews with…| Swords & Spectres
It’s rare that I refuse to finish any book, no matter how much I’m struggling to enjoy it. But these past couple of years I’ve suddenly decided that time isn’t something we …| Swords & Spectres