Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011

Happy New Year! I hope you have all been having an enjoyable and indulgent festive period; may you have been bestowed with books and grey ones for those of you still awaiting your Persephone Secret Santa gift. Santa Claus did not -sadly- bring me reinstated internet access so I am still limited at home for [...]

Recent Acquisitions

A few books have dropped through the letter-box of Paperback Reader abode over the last week and, at the time of going to press, I have read one of them with a review forthcoming. I spotted Plan for Chaos by John Wyndham in a bookshop recently and was instantly intrigued as it was a title [...]

The Day of the Triffids

Last year (pre-blogging) I read The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham; I followed up immediately by purchasing the other revamped Penguin Wyndham series and then I read and reviewed Trouble With Lichen later in the year. At the beginning of this year I finally got around to reading what is considered Wyndham’s major work, The [...]

Trouble with Lichen

Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham is a Science Fiction novel set in the 1950s but do not let that put you off! It is an entertaining novel that in many ways is both a product of its time, progressive for its time and timeless. It is also a social satire and did I mention [...]