We all know the adage ‘curiosity killed the cat’, well in Kiernan’s debut novel, curiosity did a lot more than that: it killed the dead man. When an Arctic scientific expedition in search of single-cell life forms stumbles upon a lot more than it usually does – krill and sardines, a whole new world of... Continue Reading →
Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter
Well, it would appear that you can actually judge a book by its cover. The only reason I picked this one up was because of the picture of the Ligurian village of Manarola on the front. I visited the Cinque Terre the year before last and of course seeing it again brought back some beautiful... Continue Reading →