What I'm reading now
Blood Covenant by Alan Baxter
The blurb:
What should have been a breeze of a bank heist for James Glenn and his crew goes violently wrong, forcing them to flee, blood-stained and angry. They stumble onto a remote lodge that doesn't open for another month—a perfect place to lie low until the heat's off.
Except it's occupied.
The Moore family, just arrived to prepare for the season, are taken hostage by the criminals, but not without bloodshed. And when blood gets spilled, something ancient notices. Something malevolent. Something ravenous.
Their only hope is the youngest Moore, teenager Rueben, outside and unseen when James and his gang arrive. It's up to Rueben to get help and save his family, but the influence of the ancient evil is taking a toll on him as well...
...and...
A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett
The blurb:
Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series—but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer's research and animal rights. A Slip of the Keyboard brings together for the first time the finest examples of Pratchett's non fiction writing, both serious and surreal: from musings on mushrooms to what it means to be a writer (and why banana daiquiris are so important); from memories of Granny Pratchett to speculation about Gandalf's love life, and passionate defences of the causes dear to him.
With all the humour and humanity that have made his novels so enduringly popular, this collection brings Pratchett out from behind the scenes of the Discworld to speak for himself—man and boy, bibliophile and computer geek, champion of hats, orang-utans and Dignity in Dying.
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What I've read
- Countess by Suzan Palumbo (review to come)
- Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (review to come)
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (review to come)
- The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie (review to come)
- It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest
- Spook Street by Mick Herron
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Hemsworth Effect by James Weir
- The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
- Making Money by Terry Pratchett
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
- Real Tigers by Mick Herron
- On The Way To The Wedding by Julia Quinn
- Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
- Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell
- Blue Poles by Tom McIlroy
- We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
- It's In His Kiss by Julia Quinn
- Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce
- Never Flinch by Stephen King
- Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
- Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
- The Truth by Terry Pratchett
- Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
- Dead Lions by Mick Herron
- The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe with Danny Lore, Yohanca Delgado, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Sheree Renée Thomas, Eve L Ewing
- Snuff by Terry Pratchett
- A Dreadful Murder by Minette Walters
- Thud! by Terry Pratchett
- Gunnawah by Ronni Salt
- When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
- Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
- Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
- Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power by Lech Blaine
- The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
- To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn
- Jingo, by Terry Pratchett
- Year's Best SF 2, edited by David G Hartwell
- Slow Horses by Mick Herron
- The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir
- Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
- Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
- Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang
- An Offer From A Gentleman by Julia Quinn
- Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
- Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett
- The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
- Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
- Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
- Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
- The Drowning House by Cherie Priest
- Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
- Midnight at the Houdini by Delilah S Dawson
- Mort, by Terry Pratchett
- The Terraformers, by Annalee Newitz
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi
- Bury Your Gays, by Chuck Tingle
- We'll Prescribe You A Cat, by Syou Ishida, translated by E Madison Shimoda
- Mean Streak, by Rick Morton
- Here One Moment, by Liane Moriarty
- Buried Deep and Other Stories, by Naomi Novik
Still to read
- The List & The Drop by Mick Herron (two Slough House novellas)
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
- The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
- Chapelwood: The Borden Dispatches 2 by Cherie Priest
- Mrs Martin's Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan
- The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
- The Gods Below by Andrea Stewart
- The Last Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison and J Michael Straczynski
- Bloom by Delilah S Dawson
- The Duke Who Didn't by Courtney Milan
- Blood Covenant by Alan Baxter
- The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Not Quite by the Book by Julie Hatcher
- Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
- Requiem Moon by CT Rwizi
- Primeval Fire by CT Rwizi
- The World We Make by NK Jemisin
- Countess by Suzan Palumbo
- A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
- A Magical Inheritance, A Ghostly Request, In The Society of Women and A Lady's Choice by Krista D Ball
- So many Pratchett novels...
On top of this, I've got issues of Clarkesworld, Forever and Khoreo, plus a bunch of year's best anthologies in horror and science fiction to catch up on.
On reserve at the library
- Raising Steam, Terry Pratchett
- London Rules, Mick Herron
Plan to reread
- The City We Became by NK Jemisin, ahead of reading The World We Make
- Scarlet Odyssey by CT Rwizi, ahead of reading Requiem Moon and Primeval Fire
- Snare, by Katharine Kerr
- The entire Deverry cycle, by Katharine Kerr
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