by Pandora | Nov 19, 2018 | Blog posts, British Crime Fiction, Crime and thriller, Police Procedural
A mild Tuesday night in October and I join about 80 people streaming into the Compass Theatre to listen to Mark Billingham and Martyn Waites talk about their new books. This talk was one of the author events from this year’s Hillingdon Culture Bites festival. I...
by Pandora | Jun 10, 2018 | Anthony Horowitz, Authors, Blog posts, Crime and thriller
Anthony Horowitz I found this book on offer at my local supermarket. Having never read an Alex Rider novel, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the idea of Horowitz moving from Young Adult stories into Adult stories intrigued me. [amazon_link...
by Pandora | Nov 19, 2017 | Blog posts, James Patterson
“Bookshots – the revolution in reading” With over 100 fiction novels under his belt, James Patterson is nothing if not prolific, how then can he be more so? By writing shorter books of course. Bookshots are the new ‘revolution’ or “gimmick” to come...
by Pandora | Sep 3, 2017 | Blog posts, Fantasy, Terry Pratchett
It was August 25th in a sunny field in Dorset, people were leisurely going about their day visiting a local steam fair, unaware that the death of a universe was taking place just yards away. A last goodbye to the Discworld This was a relatively young universe, as far...
by Pandora | Aug 6, 2017 | Blog posts
Sexism in the publishing industry – Is the shoe on the other foot in today’s market? It has long been believed that people prefer to read books by authors of the same sex as them – I call bullshit! I for one am not drawn to female authors. In...
