Results tagged “books”

COMEDY
Doughnut
Tom Holt (Orbit)
★★✩✩✩

Tom Holt is better than this. He is the master of the comic conceit played out with outrageous daring and with memorable characters.

BOOK
Let The Old Dreams Die by John Ajvide Lindqvist
(Quercus)
★★★★✩

IN A NUTSHELL
This collection of chilling short stories will have you wishing your DLR journey was just a few pages longer.

BOOK
Criminal by Karin Slaughter
(Century)
★★★✩✩

IN A NUTSHELL
Karin Slaughter's grisly crime thriller is an epic sweep across 40 years where two similar murder cases bring up some chilling memories.

BOOK
Tubes, by Andrew Blum
Penguin
★★★✩✩

IN A NUTSHELL
There is no cloud - there are just lots and lots of wires leading to lots and lots of data centres. Andrew Blum follows his emails down the pipes.

BOOK
Quiet, by Susan Cain
Viking
★★★★✩

IN A NUTSHELL
Susan Cain argues that Western culture values bravado over contemplation, to the detriment of business, society and creativity.