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Birmingham horror/sci-fi book club’s favourite horror and sci-fi novels which we HIGHLY recommend you read (collated June 2026)
We recently had people list out their favourite top 5 horror and sci-fi books. I weighted the scores (someone’s top favourite gets 5 points, 2nd favourite gets 4 points, 3rd favourite gets 3 points..) and now we have some recommendations for you. The horrors Winner and king, loved best by the most: Monstrilio by Gerardo… Read more
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podcast for you?
Here is an hour of us talking about our reading habits for 2024 and our favourite books of the year. “I don’t want to listen to you talk for an hour, just tell me the books.” ok Bec top 5 (no particular order): Hazz top 5 (no particular order): Bonus book we both loved: The… Read more
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August reading wrap up
August was a record breaking month for me, both for books finished and pages read, not only this year but in my life ever. All it took was: 🙂 Anyway, on to the books, quite a lot of them have been good. Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen 4 ⭐ Bachelor style reality dating… Read more
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Blobby Horror – a surprisingly excellent Mr Blobby based horror anthology comic
This bills itself as: A collection of cursed comics and illustrations from 17 artists who scarcely survived from their encounters with the Blobbed Entity And it can be purchased for ten quid on etsy. Honestly, I purchased this as a semi-joke gift for my husband’s birthday; he is a horror reader and was young during… Read more
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Reading wrap up (Jan-June 2024)
Since around November 2023 I made a change and a decision. The decision was that I’d like to eventually run a horror book shop (meaning that I’d need to be able to recommend books by dint of having read them), and the change was that I gave up the remaining social media I was on… Read more
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Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
review by Bec This stor(e)y is set in a tower block in London, which is bisected into a half for luxury apartments for the rich, and a half for ‘affordable housing’ which is comparatively extremely poorly appointed and maintained. The entrance for the luxury half is up front, with a 24 hour concierge, where the… Read more