Book Reviews

The last thing 12-year-old Billy Pyke wanted, was to end up working a dead-end job at a factory like his father, achieving nothing but the counting of nails, day in and day out.

Sixteen years after the release of the international best seller, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell, Susanna Clarke has returned with her second masterpiece, Piranesi.

Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou are the drummer and bass player from Australian band, Silverchair. Their book, Love & Pain is a collection of stories from their lives before, during and after their time in the band.

The Silent Invasion, by James Bradley Ten years after an outbreak of DNA altering spores, the world is being infected; plant life, animals, even humans. When 16 year old Callie discovers that her 5 year old...

Hollow City, by Ransom Riggs Hollow City is the second novel in the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series. In the first book, ‘Miss Peregrine’s House for Peculiar Children,’ we learn about Jacob, who at age six,...

Ninth House book review Ninth House written by leigh bardugo review by todd kuchel review 4.5 STARS  4.5/5 Her entire life, Alex Stern has been haunted by ghosts. They have followed her home, appeared in her classrooms, bedroom, even her bathroom. In her primary...

What if colours could speak? The boy who saw in colours, is the debut, historical fiction novel by Lauren Robinson, about Josef Schneider, a young boy with Synesthesia, living in Berlin, 1939.

  Library of Souls, by Ransom Riggs The third novel of the Miss Peregrine’s peculiar children series   After being deceived by Miss Peregrine’s evil brother Caul, Jacob and Emma follow the trail of their kidnapped friends to Devil’s...

A New England Affair Written by Steven Carroll   BOOK REVIEW BY TODD KUCHEL During a night of amateur theatre in 1913, Emily Bale, a twenty two year old with theatrical aspirations and 25 year old Tom Eliot,...

  Lenny's Book of Everything Written by Karen Foxlee   BOOK REVIEW BY TODD KUCHEL Lenny Spink has a brother named Davey who has something peculiar that just isn’t quite right, he won’t stop growing. With their mother working two...