I spoke with Natascha Kampusch, Austrian girl who was kidnapped at the age of 10 and held captive in a cellar for eight and a half years. She escaped her captor in 2006. Her new book “10 Years Of Freedom” will be published in England in April this year. Peter […]

The Innocent is the fifth novel in the Ryan Lock series written by Scottish author Sean Black. The series is characterized by its fast placed plots, great main character and good premises. I’ve been a fan of this series ever since I read the first book and thoroughly enjoyed the […]

There are many of us out there that are sparse on time. For whatever reason, babies to look after, parents to look after, or careers to look after or just the fact that we live in 2015. It makes the time we do have to ourselves all the more precious, […]

The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss is a gentle and slow-moving novella with a certain lack of action. In this regard, it could easily be placed on a ‘nothing-happens’ shelf beside  Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Proust’s Swan’s Way: In Search of Lost Time. A second similarity […]

Like a good scotch or whisky, Khaled Hosseini gets better with age. With the publication of And The Mountains Echoed, Hosseini has now published three books. His first book, The Kite Runner was adapted both into a film and a graphic novel (the latter by Hosseini himself), It follows the […]

Book Review: Rhonda Byrne, The Secret  Following Your Dreams After reading the book The Secret I have never felt so motivated and so willing to carry forth what I set out to do. We all see the phrase ‘following your dreams’ as only taken seriously in two situations one, in […]

Book Review: Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely Dan Ariely has a knack for making the science of human behaviour accessible to all. Whilst some books taking on a scientific subject can often be either laborious to read or patronisingly simple, Predictably Irrational cleverly avoids falling into either of those traps. Ariely’s […]

“It is only in times of desperation and defeat that your full powers will come forth. But you must believe this. To believe is to survive.” Excerpt from Innovera Yakov – The Journey of A Thousand Eyes Innovera Yakov – The Journey of A Thousand Eyes is the first book in […]