Roo I MacLeod -Writer  Dystopian Thrillers

Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo features Anna Bain as its main character. She is a middle aged, unfulfilled lady, trying to decide if she...

Dorothy B Hughes novel In a lonely Place reeks menace and oozes evil. It blankets its story in darkness and mists, which blur and obscure...

In the dystopian world of Albion Minor, drugs and knife crime rule the capitol, Old London Town. To rid the city of this blight the Man...

Marie Lu's Legend series, includes big characters that are matched with a big and bold beast of a dystopian world. It is miserable for...

Seth by Robert Lewers is an historical adventure. I've no idea when it is set coz I'm rubbish with English history, but it involves...

Admittedly I've come to this series, well late. I've read the Hunger Games, like who hasn't, but Suzanne Collins's earlier work escaped...

Spoiler alert! The Uglies by Scott Westerfield, was not a book I enjoyed. And that sounds like an understatement, but there lies the...

The Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman is an intriguing read that ensnares your attention with the most wonderful portrayal of the...

The big news this week was the invasion of UK soil by the French fishermen. They were angry about not being able to toss out a line and...

The easing of Lockdown was greeted by a muffled cheer as the weather told us not to party just yet. Unrelenting rain filled our puddles...

The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton Two tragic events, the death of his mother to cancer and the accidental squashing of his abusive father...

Writer's Blog 30032021 Hi I hope this message finds you in good health. I got the call this morning. My caller ID said Doctor Fitzalan...

All the birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders is a coming of age with a little bit of saving the universe thrown in. He's a ...

Monstrous Devices by Damien Love, is a middle grade novel, which means its target audience is kids, but, either I’m regressing...

He was the highlight of the long walk home from school. They’d taunt him. Laugh at him. Throw sticks and stones. ‘Baggy trousers.’ ‘Did...

Parable of the Sower: Earthseed by Octavia E. Butler God is Change. This is the basis of Earthseed. It tells people to see the importance...

Nic Caruana is paid to find and kill people. In his youth, he stabbed a bully in self-defence, an act that has sculpted the life we meet...

Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens Kya is a survivor. She has been abandoned by her family, her abusive father the last to leave, No one...

I’ve just finished a book, Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathon Letham, centred around Lionel Essrog the human ‘freakshow.’ It is a classic...

A child, Fiora, (when I say a child, I mean a 16-year-old teen) is dumped on an ageing cobbler’s doorstep. She has little money and is...