1936 semi-autobiographical novel. Robert Owen, out of the Royal Air Force, goes to work as an instructor at a small flying club in an English cathedral town.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved palindromic numbers and block searches. (Note that this ends today.)
2004 romance/SF/mystery; second of its series. Lydia Smith and Emmett London are carrying on their relationship, but they both bave prickles that the other can brush against. Oh, and someone has just tried to kill Emmett's old friend…
2020 fantasy, first of a trilogy. Dr Kira Aist was brought up not to use magic, because of the attention it would bring; after she breaks that rule and Bad Things happen, she creates a House that will be a sanctuary, and travel anywhere she needs it to. After all, Baba Yaga is an old friend of the family…
1979 Arthurian fantasy, last of its series. Arthur is King, but Merlin is still needed to advise him.
2008 YA SF, third in its series. Ishmael Horatio Wang continues his career as space crew on a trading ship.
I've been adminisitering a hidden-movement game over at the tekeli.li forums, and it occurred to me that this was a potentially enjoyable programming challenge.
1983 mystery. Virginia Freer has been lightly socialising with an antique-dealing couple in her small town, and one of them is murdered. Then it turns out that a harmless old woman was killed in a way that might indicate it was related…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved password analysis and number parsing. (Note that this ends today.)
2022 mystery, third in the loose Harbinder Kaur series.. At a 21-year school reunion, one of the former pupils is found dead with cocaine round his nose. And he's an MP…
More gaming with some nearby friends.
2024 paranormal fantasy, first novel of a series. Bunny Barrington is working for the cops in a tiny town in Alaska. Oh, and she's a vampire.
2023 romance/SF/mystery; 57th novel of J. D. Robb's In Death series (SF police procedurals). A retired Internal Affairs officer is found shot in his home, but Dallas sees right through the apparent suicide…
Back to one of my favourite conventions, now in a new and much larger venue.
2011 tartan noir, collection of loosely-linked short stories. It's a few days before Christmas in Oldcastle, and several people won't be having a merry Christmas.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved quinelikes and list processing. (Note that this ends today.)
1973 collection of short supernatural and mystery stories
2019 fantasy. Cassandra Harwood has got her magical school for young ladies, but many people would like it to fail.
2023 SF. Enitan is a scribe and tea cultivator on Koriko, conquered a few years ago by the Vaalbaran Empire. But when her sibling disappears, and her highly-placed friend promises to help her in the search and promptly winds up dead, she volunteers to travel to the mother world as a hostage…
2017 historical thriller, second of its series. After a planned expedition has to be abandoned, Veronica Speedwell and her undeclared beau Stoker are bored in London, and easily lured into investigating a Bohemian murder…
1987 sf. On the gas giant moons of Orestes and Electra, a harsh honour code has been mellowed by allowing "social death" to replace execution. But the system still isn't stable.
2023 gothic fantasy, first of a planned series. Winifred Hall takes up a position as governess at Witchwood Manor, complete with brooding lord, old lady in the attic, enigmatic butler, and other traditional strangenesses.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved network analysis and change calculation. (Note that this ends today.)
2012 fantasy, last of its trilogy. Moon is taken from his adoptive court by what may be his birth family, but it's all much more complicated than that.
2024 short romantic SF novel, side story in Galactic Bonds. Zane Zimmer tries to juggle his position as chief hatchet-man to a psychotic emperor with the demands of his highly-placed family…
2014 Ruritanian fantasy. Barbara is the elderly Baron's bodyguard-duellist, and after his death is passed on with most of his property to his distant niece Margerit—who mostly wants to study miracles at the university…
Hexicon is a small church-hall convention held quite close to me.
2020 science fiction, second in the Time Police sub-series in the Chronicles of St Mary's continuity (time travel). Team Weird continues to be the dangerous intellectuals of the Time Police.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a list search and an unusual sort. (Note that this ends today.)