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BOOK REVIEWS (By author, title)

A note on reviews:
The majority of these reviews originally appears on my blog and were migrated over here. I had a general policy for reviews: if I didn't like a book I didn't review it, so the majority of these reviews are positive. This shouldn't be taken as evidence of an uncritical eye, but a policy against pouring negative reviews into the world. (The only exception to this may be reviews that come from my annual advent calendar, which is often themed on re-reading books from a long time ago, and has a more critical eye.)
A
Becky Albertalli
 Simon Vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda
Anonymous A Fucked Up Life In Books
B
B.B.
Brendon Chase
David Barnett Calling Major Tom
​David Barnett
Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl
David Barnett Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon
David Barnett Gideon Smith and the Mask of the Ripper
Christopher Barzak Before and Afterlives
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Christopher Barzak One For Sorrow
Stephen Baxter Gulliverzone
Ned Beaumann The Teleportation Accident
Steve Berman Red Caps
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Steve Berman Second Thoughts
​Steve Berman Vintage
Steve Berman (ed.) Wilde Stories 2008
Steve Berman (ed.) Wilde Stories 2009
​Steve Berman (ed.) Wilde Stories 2013
Carol Rifka Blunt Tell The Wolves I'm Home
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Enid Blyton The Mystery of the Secret Room
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Enid Blyton Five Go To Smuggler's Top

Ray Bradbury Something Wicked This Way Comes
Anthony Buckeridge Jennings and Darbishire
​Howard Buten When I Was Five I Killed Myself
'Nathan Burgoine In Memoriam
'Nathan Burgoine Light
C
Michael Campbell
Lord Dismiss Us
Tom Cardamone Night Sweats
Tom Cardamone Pumpkin Teeth
Gail Carriger Soulless
Michael Carson Sucking Sherbet Lemons
​
Charles "Zan" Christensen (ed.) Anything That Loves
​
Dennis Cooper My Loose Thread
William Corlett The Magician's House
A.C. Crispin The Hutt Gambit
Gillian Cross Pictures in the Dark
D
Sarah Davies
Lord of the Pies
Joseph R.G. DeMarco (ed.) A Study In Lavender
Franklin W. Dixon The Mystery of Cabin Island
Lara Elena Donnelly Amberlough
​Simon Doonan Beautiful People
Glen Duncan The Death of an Ordinary Man
Rod Duncan The Bullet Catcher's Daughter
E
Steven Elboz
Bottle Boy
Sigrid Ellis & Michael Damian Thomas Queers Dig Time Lords
F
Christopher Fowler
Paperboy
G
Neil Gaiman
American Gods
Neil Gaiman Sandman I: Preludes and Nocturnes
Neil Gaiman Sandman II: The Doll's House
Neil Gaiman Sandman II: Dream Country
Neil Gaiman Sandman III: Season of Mists

Steven Galloway The Confabulist
Keith Gray Creepers
Lev Grossman The Magicians
H
Kerry Hadley-Pryce
The Black Country
Daniel Handler Adverbs
Jack Hart (ed.) My Biggest O​
Lian Hearn Across The Nightingale Floor
Steve Hockensmith The White Magic Five and Dime Store
​Alice Hoffman The Musem of Extraordinary Things
​Torsten Hojer (ed.) Speak My Language
Kerry Hudson Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma
I, J
Brian Jacques
The Pearls of Lutra
Robin Jarvis The Power of Dark

K
Timothy Kurek 
The Cross in the Closet
L
Laura Lam 
Pantomime
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David Levithan Every Day
​
David Llewellyn Eleven
M
Ian McDonald
 Time Was
Paul Magrs 
Baker's End
Paul Magrs Brenda and Effie Forever!
Paul Magrs The Story of Fester Cat
John Maley Delilah's
​
Mathias Malzieu The Boy With The Cuckoo Clock Heart
George Mann (ed.) Encounters of Sherlock Holmes
George Mann (ed.) Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes
​George Mann The Affinity Bridge
George Mann The Osiris Ritual
Jeff Mann Cub
Armistead Maupin The Days of Anna Madrigal
Declan May (ed.) Seasons of War
​
Sarah Moon (ed.) The Letter Q
Perry Moore Hero
​David Thomas Moore (ed.) Two Hundred and Twenty One Baker Streets
Paul Murray Skippy Dies
N
Patrick Ness 
More Than This
O, P
Sarah Pinborough 
Mayhem
Philip Purser-Hallard City of the Saved: Tales of the Great Detectives
Q, R
Mary Roach 
Gulp
Phil Rickman Midwinter of the Spirit
​
Philip Ridley In The Eyes of Mr Fury
William Ritter Jackaby
Rainbow Rowell Fangirl
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J.K. Rowling The Casual Vacancy
Rob Ryan The Invisible Kingdom
S
Kevin Sampson Freshers
​
Alex Sanchez The God Box
Jack Saul The Sins of the Cities of the Plain
Justin Sayre Husky
Paul Shipton Bug Muldoon and the Garden of Fear
Neil Smith Bang Crunch
Neil Smith Boo
T
Jean Teulé The Suicide Shop
Tiffany Trent The Unnaturalists
U, V
Various 
Doctor Who: Eleven Stories
Various Jago and Litefoot: Series One
W
S.J. Watson 
Before I Go To Sleep
Steven B. Williams Heartsnare
X, Y, ​Z
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