A review by Nalini Haynes Manners & Mutiny is Finishing School book 4, preceded by Etiquette & Espionage, Curtsies and Conspiracies and Waistcoats and Weaponry. …
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Clockwork Dagger by Beth Cato
A review by Rebecca Fleming Octavia Leander is a healer, orphaned as a child and taken in by Miss Percival, the headmistress of the Caskentian …
Prudence by Gail Carriger
A review by Nalini Haynes A few years back I succumbed and started Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate novels on book 4. I had no idea …
Endsinger by Jay Kristoff
A review by Nalini Haynes ISBN: 9781447259480 Format: paperback, 661 pages (excluding glossary and acknowledgements) Publisher: Macmillan Endsinger is the third in the Lotus War …
Waistcoats and Weaponry by Gail Carriger
A review by Nalini Haynes ISBN: 9781907411618 Publisher: Hachette Page count: 320 Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars Waistcoats and Weaponry is the 3rd finishing school novel after Etiquette …
Book of Days by K A Barker
A review by Nalini Haynes ISBN: 9781742614175 Format: Paperback, 392 pages Category: Children’s General Fiction Imprint: Pan Australia (Macmillan) The Book of Days is steampunk …
Pirates: Band of Misfits (2012 movie)
A review by Nalini Haynes ★★☆☆☆ two out of five stars The Pirates pins all its hopes for an audience – any audience – on …
Dance of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin
A review by Evie Kendal The second novel of a two-book young adult dystopian fiction series, Dance of the Red Death picks up immediately from …
Curtsies and Conspiracies by Gail Carriger
A review by Nalini Haynes Curtsies and Conspiracies is the second in the Finishing School series by Gail Carriger. This is a prequel series to the …
Ninja photographer avoids cat fight over books received
Pikachu has come to live with us, thanks to Rebecca Fleming. HarperCollins and Rebecca must have been in league because Pikachu and the pictured colour-coordinated …
Kinslayer by Jay Kristoff
a review by Nalini Haynes Kinslayer is the second in the Lotus War trilogy by Jay Kristoff. The first in this trilogy, Stormdancer, has been shortlisted for …
Cat Sparks launches Richard Harland’s Song of the Slums
Cat Sparks launched Richard Harland‘s Song of the Slums at Continuum 9 this year. There were speeches, Richard read from his novel and showed off …
Song of the Slums by Richard Harland
a review by Nalini Haynes Song of the Slums is a YA novel by award-winning steampunk author, Richard Harland. Set in an alternative 19th century …
Phoenix Rising by Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris
A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences novel a review by Evie Kendal The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences investigates unusual events and artefacts in service of Queen …
Steam Mole by Dave Freer
a review by Rebecca Muir The Steam Mole is the sequel to Dave Freer’s alternate history novel, Cuttlefish. The world of Cuttlefish and The Steam …