fiction – FIONA GLASS

New romance story, with added slugs!

It's been a while since I wrote any short stories so I'm really pleased not just to have finished a new one, but to have had it published over at…

It could never happen…

Could it? After all, police officers are there to uphold the law, not bend it to their own devices or desires. However, the more often I read about cases like…

‘Boulevard’ by Jim Grimsley

23 Mar 200923 Mar 2009

Don't you just hate it when you find a book with a cover so awful that you very nearly don't read it at all? This happened with 'Boulevard' - the…

‘Time and Place’ by Alan Sheridan

Okay, I’ll admit it - this book had me baffled. It was billed as a fictionalised biography based on the diaries of a real-life actor, Mark Sheridan, as written by…

‘Haweswater’ by Sarah Hall

17 Nov 200817 Nov 2008

I bought this book just before we went on holiday to the Lake District, because it happens to be set in... the Lake District! There's a lovely sepia photo of…

‘The Whaleboat House’ by Mark Mills

I read Mills' 'The Savage Garden' last year and thoroughly enjoyed it (a garden *and* a mystery - what's not to like *g*) so when I saw another title by…

‘In the Company of the Courtesan’ by Sarah Dunant

13 Sep 200813 Sep 2008

I first came across this author when a friend gave me her first novel, 'Birth of Venus', for Christmas. Straight away I loved her style of writing, but in that…

‘Death of a Monk’ by Alon Hilu

10 Sep 200810 Sep 2008

Finding this book at all was something of a happy accident, since I’d never even heard of the author, let alone the title. This isn’t really surprising as Hilu is…

‘Ripley Underwater’ by Patricia Highsmith

3 Jul 20083 Jul 2008

Bit of an odd one, this. It's the last (so far) in the Ripley series about a charming psychopath, the first of which was made into the film The Talented…

‘Fool’s Errand’ by Louis Bayard

11 Jun 200811 Jun 2008

The first of the holiday reads... Gorgeous, just gorgeous! This book is warm, funny, lively, involving and, er, did I mention gorgeous? It tells the story of Patrick, a gay…