Quantum Radio: everything everywhere

I really should know what to expect when I pick up a sci-fi thriller by AG Riddle. After all, I’ve read half a dozen of them and they share a comfortable formula. Half geek: half boy’s own adventure. This means you get thoughtful speculative extrapolation based around solid contemporary scientific concepts – something of a…

The Dark: Antarctic isolation

Imagine being marooned for many months with half a dozen strangers, in the harshest environment on earth, quite literally in the dark. That’s where doctor Kate goes, to an Antarctic research station, to over-winter with the skeleton crew. She’s hiding from a series of tragic mistakes she made in her personal and professional life –…

The Law Of Innocence: on trial for his life

In the most recent book in the ‘Lincoln lawyer’ series, defence counsel Mickey Haller can at last be convinced of his client’s innocence… because he IS the client. He’s been brilliantly done up like a kipper, when a very dead body is discovered by a police patrolman in the trunk of his town car. It…

Author in action: Slow progress with proof-reading

As the publication date for ‘A Last Act Of Charity’ creeps ever closer, so FrankW can be found in his library, pawing through the page-proofs. This is all a bit olde worlde for us, being rather more familiar with the frantic and entirely digital procedures of monthly magazine publishing. But there does seem to be…