The Arabian Nights Entertainments
★★★☆☆
A collection of folk-tales from the Arab world, from the Islamic golden age
Something Fresh
★★★★☆
The first ever Blandings castle book and, as it always happens, there are visitors to the castle under an assumed identity
The Name of the Wind
★★★★★
Kvothe relates the story of his life, the tale of how he grew from a gifted child to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen
Maltese Falcon
★★☆☆☆
Private eye Sam Spade finds himself surrounded by several parties all vying to get hold of a jewel encrusted bird
A Short History of Nearly Everything
★★★★★
An engaging exploration of science and the natural world, making complex topics accessible to the casual reader
Crooked House
★★★☆☆
The wealthy Aristide Leonides is dead, poisoned through his medicine. But who has poisoned him?
Tracers in the Dark
★★★☆☆
Relooking at cyber-security and privacy in the insidious world of the dark web
The Exorcist
★★★★★
A young girl is possessed by a demon, and a pair of Jesuit priests perform the exorcism
A Scanner Darkly
★★★☆☆
In a dystopian future, drug culture and use have been normalized and taken over the mainstream
The Return of the King
★★★★★
The magnificent and thrilling conclusion of the quest to destroy the one ring
Hallowe'en party
★★★☆☆
A young girl is killed during a hallowe'en party, and Poirot is summoned to investigate