Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead

Well, this year I managed to read 53 books which averages out at just over one per week. However, the pattern across the year has been imbal...

  Fiction 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafón This is the first part of Ruiz Zafón's renowned tetralogy. It is set in ...

  Fiction 'Resurrection Men' by Ian Rankin This is the thirteenth book in the Rebus series and was prize winning. Unlike some of the...

  Fiction 'The Falls' by Ian Rankin This is the 12th Rebus novel and as I have noted before, the stories by this stage of reading ar...

 Fiction 'The Nonborn King' by Julian May As this was a 2013 re-release I had not realised it was the third book in The Saga of Exil...

 Fiction 'The Amulet of Samarkand' by Jonathan Stroud This is a children's book that is often likened to the Harry Potter series...

Fiction 'Azincourt' by Bernard Cornwell As the title suggests this novel is set around the events of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415...

Fiction 'Black and Blue' by Ian Rankin It is interesting that the editions of Rankin's books I am reading have an introductory e...

  Fiction 'Oh, Play That Thing!' by Roddy Doyle I have read a number of Roddy Doyle books down the years (and watched dramatisations...

  Fiction 'Who Was David Weiser?' by Pawel Huelle; translated by Antonia Lloyd Jones If you do not like unreliable narrators then th...