Adventure story – Page 2

Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce

A tale of friendship, reconciliation with the past, and adventure, with two unlikely women searching for a beetle on the other side of the world

Anyone for Venice at the time of Shakespeare with Shakespeare himself as your eyes there? Well, it worked for me!

There are exploits; I’m not sure how glorious they are but this book doesn’t need glory to make it a triumph

An inventive thriller, driven by action with a very dark idea at its centre and a narrative that switches between the hunters and the hunted

The story of Eamon Casey is a well-told tale of bravery, redemption, revenge and love.

An analogous story for our time, mixed with mysticism, fantasy, action and a bit of romance

What would you think if you saw haloes appearing above people’s heads? In Perozo’s book, Drew, his main character, experiences exactly that.

Fabler holds a mirror up to the world, using what he sees to write a taut thriller where good people try to expose those who would control

A book of boys and baseball which rolls along at a fair old pace, with humour, cracking dialogue and scrapes and incidents galore

I loved this book: the atmosphere, the people, the story, the pacing, the conclusion. Do I need to say more?