Ring a ring of roses A pocket full of posies Atishoo! Atishoo! We all fall down – Traditional English Nursery Rhyme Sapphire and Steel are summoned to a condemned warehouse in the City area of London. There is a team in the warehouse transcribing documents and cataloguing artefacts found beneath the land the warehouse sits [...]
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1.2 – Daisy Chain
A bit of a change for our heroes this time. Sapphire and Steel arrive at a suburban home to deal with an incursion by time. They meet a normal family – son on holiday from university; daughter still at school and coming into her womanhood; and their widowed mother. All seems to be ordinary, but [...]
1.1 – The Passenger
This is a choo-choo train Puffing down the track. Now it’s going forward. Now it’s going back. In this, the first outing for David Warner and Susannah Harker, our eponymous heroes meet on a train. Their “target” is Philip Burgess, a steam train enthusiast and antique book seller. While investigating, they realise that each of [...]
The Erast Fandorin Mysteries
I enjoy reading a good detective novel. I prefer the more “hard boiled” detective, but once in a while I like to read about a more cerebral detective. The most famous of these is, of course, Sherlock Holmes. Erast Fandorin could well be described as a “Russian Holmes”. He applies logic to his dealings with [...]
Storm Front (The Dresden Files Book One) – Jim Butcher
One of the dangers, for me, of reviewing a series of books is that I read so quickly that by the time I’m ready to write a review I have to review them all in one fell swoop. I won’t do that with The Dresden Files: firstly, because the way they are written demands a [...]
