My Review (5 stars out of 5) In 1915 arctic explorer Ernest Shackleton recruited 27 men and set sail for the ice-bound Antarctic seas in a bid to cross Antarctica via the pole. But their ship became wedged in the ice and Shackleton was faced with keeping his men alive until they could be rescued.…
Month: October 2025
‘The Quarry’ by Iain Banks
My Review (5 stars out of 5) In The Quarry Iain Banks puts a group of old university pals in a house for a reunion and lets them loose with their memories, problems, irritations and frustrations. The owner of the house is dying, and with his son Kit (who has the hots for one of…
‘Kalahari Passage’ by Candi Miller
My Review (5 stars out of 5) This is the follow up to book one, Salt and Honey, which saw the young lovers Koba and Mannie separated and thrown in jail. Mannie takes the chance of parole to abscond in the hope of finding Koba, but she is already in the process of being taken…
Colin Garrow 