Laura Maria Grierson

So, you're doing the responsible thing and staying indoors for three to twelve weeks. Great!

Reading The Handmaid's Tale has started to feel something of essential. I don't hold with "the canon", those must-read books that...

"Here we were, heading into the fire, ascending to the hottest and most dangerous part of the tower. In the extreme heat and with poor...

It's easy to recognise Netflix's Joe in the TV series You as a construct, but does it work as well when presenting him as the narrator in...

When their car breaks down, a heavily-pregnant mother leaves her three children in the car at the hard shoulder to find an emergency...

If you had to pick one book from your shelf that you'd never give up, even if that particular copy was worth thousands, which would you...

Despised by her neighbours and with no particular aspirations of her own, Marion lives in a six-bedroom ageing and neglected house,...

It's not a book I would have picked up -- one of my best friends got it for me for my birthday, quite probably recognising that of the...

With Halloween just fading over the horizon, it's unlikely you've gone through a "classic" horror film list that hasn't mentioned...

I've never reviewed an anthology before (or read that many, to be honest) but now that we will soon be announcing our winners for...

It's difficult to review a sequel to His Dark Materials, one of the most evocative trilogies in English literature -- and particularly...

I absolutely love the TV series 13 Reasons Why. If it hadn't been for that, I probably would have passed this book over, but after...

It's kind of embarrassing (but I still defend it!) that my local bookshop is Tesco. It's open til late, it's where I get my snacks, and...

The baby's been grouchy all day, and the woman next door doesn't like kids. Anne doesn't really want to go to the dinner party, but her...

After the Hole is a short novel, one you could read in a couple of hours, and then spend another mulling it over. It's a simple story,...

Reader, tread carefully: beyond here may be spoilers. I mean, there may be better ways of opening up a horror novel, but a flayed animal...

I'm late to the game with Will Hill's 'After the Fire', a YA that has made the Zoella Book Club 2017 list and has been majorly hyped over...