Category: Rooties Recent Reading

One day, I’m going to be writing my last review of a Sharpe book. Until then, I’ve got more great reading to look forward to! Sharpe begins the story being a very naughty boy (executing enemy prisoners) and spends the rest of it trying to prove himself worthy in battle. I’m not spoiling anything by…

I count my blessings when I find all the books of a series in one go in the second hand bookshop. Even more so because I had already looked for more Charles Stross books and decided there weren’t any in the shop. It was only another bookish customer remarking to the shopkeeper how unusual it…

I’ve come to the conclusion that Sci-Fi really means “any other genre but it just happens to be set in a different reality”. Robots of Dawn is a great detective story that just happens to be set in another world. The politics and technology are all relevant to our problem – a murder – that…