Take the town building aspects of Sim City, set it in a world where people have headed into the snowy, frozen northern corner of the world and will die within the hour if you don’t start sorting things out immediately, and you’ve got Frostpunk. Frontpunk is very much...
“Eight astronauts, one killer, no way home”. The cover of One Way doesn’t shy away from letting you know what’s going to happen later in the book, and yet that doesn’t ruin what is a very enjoyable Mars-based part sci-fi, part murder mystery story whereby seven criminals locked...
Filed under “things I never thought would happen”, The Royal Wedding Colouring Book by Adam Rushton hooks into the upcoming wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, mixes in the great pass-time of adult colouring in, and gives you a series of scenes from various films but starring...
A couple of years ago we reviewed The Hatching, a title about spiders attacking humans and eating them. A lot. 12 months on Skitter joined the series, outlining how the spiders had started to die off, but leaving various egg sacks dotted around of various sizes and levels...
Let’s go straight to the obvious here: anyone with an interest in Formula 1 should be buying this book, without question. Adrian Newey has been the mind behind some of the all-time great F1 cars, and this books takes you through a long career which hit its peak...
For those not familiar with the LEGO Friends range these sets are slightly different to what you’d call “standard” LEGO sets. Colours are bright and colourful and the characters stand taller with more human-like features than the traditional yellow-faced figures that have been such a trademark image for...
Need for Speed is really starting to feel like it’s doing what it’s designed to do: give some thrilling, egde-of-the-seat racing action against other racers, police and anyone else who reckons they can outrun you. Payback has received some pretty bad press so far, but the biggest issue...
When I started drinking coffee there was only one option if you wanted a decent cup: grind your own beans and bring out your inner barista using a proper espresso machine. But nowadays the competition in the world of coffee is quite intense, and with various pod-based machines...
