The Mountains of Instead

House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski Doubleday 2000
Have you ever become lost in a book? I don't mean that metaphorical lost, your consciousness dipping into imagined worlds and swimming around for a while, leaving your physical body drooling in a corner of a coffee shop. No, I mean actually, physi…

Unspoken Sarah Rees Brennan Simon and Schuster 2012
Sorry-In-The-Vale is full of secrets. The locals know it and Kami Glass is certain of it.  What’s more, she’s determined to root them out.  Set to study journalism, Kami’s getting a head start by investigating Aurimere, the mysterious house set on a…

Raw Blue Kirsty Eagar Catnip Publishing 2012
Carly is lost and doesn’t know if she ever wants to be found. Living for the sea and the surf, she sleepwalks through the rest of her life, mundane job and limited human interactions. Reeling from a traumatic event in her not so distant life she is slowly d…

I know, I KNOW, that this feature only shows up sporadically and it's not through lack of contributors.  It's through lack of, er, any sort of organisational skills on my part.  Yet, here we are again - this time joined by the lovely Laura who, as Autumn slides it's chilly fingers into …