The Light Fantastic
★★★★☆
The second book of the discworld series picks up where the last one left off, and concludes the story of the intrepid tourist Twoflower and his companion, the inept magician Rincewind
The Running Man
★★★★☆
In a bleak dystopian world, a desperate man enters a reality-TV contest to stay alive while being pursued by killers
Anxious People
★★★★☆
An unreliable narrator talks of an inept bank robber who first fails to rob a bank, then takes hostages at a real-estate viewing, and finally disappears, without a trace
In Ascension
★★☆☆☆
A Dutch marine biologist is part of a team which investigates a new undersea formation, and the findings tie in with a space mission
The City & the City
★★★★★
Police have to solve a crime in the city-state of Beszel, a bizarre place which shares streets and neighbourhoods with the equally bizarre city state of Ul Qoma
The Time Traveller's Wife
★★★★☆
Henry has a rare condition which causes him to randomly jump in time, to various places in either the past or future
The Girl on the Train
★★★☆☆
A woman becomes obsessed with a couple she sees from her train window every day
The Chrysalids
★★★★☆
A community in a post-apocalyptic world strictly defines what it means to be human, and roots out any deviations as abominations
Luckiest Girl Alive
★★★☆☆
Ani seems to have it all; fancy job, glamourous life, rich fiancé. But her past hides horrendous secrets which still haunt her...
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
★★★★★
Years after English magic is thought dead, a magician Mr. Norrell comes forth to help England in the Napoleonic wars
Flatland: A romance of many dimensions
★★★★☆
An brief and entertaining mathematical satire, where a 2-dimensional being encounters a 3-dimensional one