Elspeth rated From the Earth to the Moon & Around the Moon: 3 stars
From the Earth to the Moon & Around the Moon by Jules Verne
From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes (French: De la Terre à la …
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Elspeth rated All things cease to appear: 4 stars
Elizabeth Brundage: All things cease to appear (2016)
All things cease to appear by Elizabeth Brundage
Arriving home to find his wife murdered and their toddler left alone, art history professor George Clare is targeted with …
Elspeth rated In the Woods: 3 stars
In the Woods by Tana French (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But …
Elspeth rated The Will to Battle: 5 stars
The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #3)
The Will to Battle is the third book of John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series, a …
SPQR by Mary Beard
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome is a 2015 book by English classicist Mary Beard that was published in the …
Elspeth rated Seven Surrenders: 5 stars
Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #2)
From 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner, Ada Palmer, the second book of Terra Ignota, a political science fiction epic …
Elspeth rated Too Like the Lightning: 5 stars
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would …
Elspeth rated The woman in white: 4 stars
Wilkie Collins: The woman in white (2003, Penguin Books)
The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (Penguin classics)
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing …
Elspeth rated Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Chronology): 3 stars
Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Chronology) by Agatha Christie
E-book exclusive extras:,1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Partners in Crime;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the …
Elspeth rated The Secret Adversary: 3 stars
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great War, there are few …
Elspeth rated Once There Were Wolves: 4 stars
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen …
Elspeth rated Last Night at the Telegraph Club: 5 stars
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment …
Elspeth rated The Hollow Places: 4 stars
The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new …
Elspeth rated The Bear and the Nightingale: 4 stars
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (Winternight Trilogy, #1)
"In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow …