February 2023

Fantasy/Science Fiction

Grey Nomad by Alison Ferguson

Reviewed by Ian Lipke Alison Ferguson must have had a lot of fun writing Grey Nomad. Obviously, no reader is supposed to take seriously the story of a seventy-year-old woman mixing on equal terms with an intergalactic crew who have problems of their own. The story is meant to ‘take the mickey’ out of us

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Historical Fiction

The Keepsake by Julie Brooks

Reviewed by Wendy Lipke According to the author of this book, the writer and reader go on a journey together where the writer plants the clues, and the reader finds them. Maybe they’ll guess the answer then a later clue will leave them doubting that guess, often several times over. It’s the twists that matter.

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Non-Fiction

Wildlife in the Balance by Simon Mustoe

Reviewed by E. B. Heath Animals aren’t commodities; they are the sole mechanism that delivers human life support.  Conservation can’t succeed until we’ve had this conversation, until everyone learns this. In The Foreword to Wildlife in the Balance, Ian Redmond OBE, Ambassador to the UN Convention on Conservation, writes:  Wildlife in the Balance is perhaps

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Crime/Mystery

Encore in Death by J. D. Robb

Reviewed by Ian Lipke Fitzhugh is dead, poisoned. The Hollywood socialite who, with his wife Eliza Lane, has been hosting a party in Uptown Hollywood. They were true A-listers, the most glamorous of society’s darlings. The crowd had gathered to hear Eliza sing, Brant had proposed a toast to his wife, and dropped in his

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Crime/Mystery

Taken by Dinuka McKenzie

Reviewed by Rod McLary The title and cover of this second book by Dinuka McKenzie provides a strong clue to its story – the book’s title is superimposed on an image of a cot empty apart from an abandoned toy bear.  What else can be meant but a stolen baby.  However, this is not just

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