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A Time Traveller's Best Friend and Memento Mori by W.R. Gingell. A light-hearted science-fiction story involving time-travel where the chronology of the chapters is not always obvious, even to the protagonists. One of the main characters is obviously a practice-run for the main character (Pet) in the City Between fantasy series (and definitely got better with practice). Entertaining: 3/5.
Coffin, Scarcely Used by Colin Watson. A late 1950s murder mystery. The dialogue was at times amusing but for me never quite made it to funny. The characters started to sound too much alike and the plot is mostly given away in the title. 2/5.
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant, subtitled "A chronicle of the world in crisis". There is a reason I so rarely read political books: they can be incredibly frustrating. I keep wanting to shout "justify that", but the author so rarely hears me. Frustrations aside, I find Stan Grant an interesting person and his insights into many political situations are thought provoking, even when I don't agree with his conclusions. 3/5.
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