By Alex North - Thriller/Mystery "The devil finds work for idle hands. Bad thoughts find empty heads" Imagine your child stating they heard a whisper coming through the window. Not only that but on another night, you find them opening the door to someone talking to them through the letterbox in the door. All of …
Author: Foxy Socks
I was born in England before moving to New Zealand at the tender age of 15. I love to read, I crossfit, I am a weightlifter and I love the pinup scene. I spend most of my Saturdays going with my friend op-shopping and on Sundays I relax and do nothing.
Book Review – Chernobyl
by Svetlana Alexievich - Non Fiction “ Is there anything more frightening than people? ” When I was a child, I vaguely remember hearing something about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant and how it changed the USSR almost the world. I wanted to learn more about it since the TV show aired, and I listened …
Book Review – All Our Secrets
By Jennifer Lane - Mystery/Crime https://jenniferlane.co.nz/ All our secrets is set in a small town in Australia, Coongahoola with the Bagoola river running through it. The river children, that were born in the aftermath of the infamous River Picnic, start to go missing one after the other. Hundreds of believers (termed "the Bleeders") also turn …
Bookstores and Expectations
I am a book lover that LOVES going into a bookstore, whether for old or new books, and looking for hours and hours at the titles. The thrill of the hunt (especially in secondhand bookstores) seem to be a draw for me to get me into the store. The only issue I have, at least …
Book Review – The Hoarder
by Jess Kidd - Literary Thriller “ Memory is like a wayward dog. Sometimes it drops the ball and sometimes it brings it, and sometimes it doesn’t bring a ball at all; it brings a shoe. ” Maud Drennan is an underpaid care worker who has been given a new case. A man who made …
Are Kiwi Authors Hiding?
I just picked up a new book by Elizabeth Knox on a whim whilst out to get coffee. When I read the blurb before buying it, it stated that it was a book about journeys. It passes through London, Norfolk (my home county) and through to Auckland, New Zealand (my current home). From this and …
Book Review – The Chalk Man
by C.J Tudor - Thriller “What shapes us is not always our achievements but our omissions. Not lies; simply the truths we don’t tell.” The story follows Eddie and his friends and alternates between his childhood experiences and adulthood relationships. It seems that events just happen one after the other with little to no breaks …
