by FOOL | Nov 29, 2025 | Cosy Crime, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Historical, Thriller
Here are ten books we enjoyed reading in November and would recommend – several of them brand new – with four of them earning 5-Stars. As usual, books available from Oundle Library and/or BorrowBox are marked with an asterisk. Although some of the newest...
by FOOL | Nov 22, 2025 | Crime Fiction, Espionage, Fiction
Clown Town is the new instalment in Mick Herron’s bestselling Slough House series and I was lucky enough to get a copy from the library quite hot off the press. Over the years I’ve read these novels in a haphazard fashion, more as standalones than a series, and often...
by FOOL | Nov 9, 2025 | Fiction, Historical
A few years ago, the independent Scottish publisher, Birlinn, had the idea of commissioning some of Scotland’s bestselling contemporary authors to re-imagine stories from Scottish history, myth and legend. The result is six novellas (so far), known collectively as The...
by FOOL | Nov 2, 2025 | Action Thriller, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Espionage, Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Thriller
Our reading theme in October was books with a one-word title. However, recognising that these might not be super-easy to find, we agreed that we could disregard the word ‘The’ if necessary. Obviously, we read anything else we fancied as well, and the books we...
