The Wartime Book Club by Kate Thompson
Reading was the only true form of joy and solace, the only intellectual freedom they still possessed and they cherished it like life itself. Another…
Reading was the only true form of joy and solace, the only intellectual freedom they still possessed and they cherished it like life itself. Another…
This is Raynor Winn’s third book, following on from The Salt Path and The Wild Silence. If you have read these previous books, you will…
Who can resist a story within a story? This is the 8th instalment in the Inspector Morse series, but it didn’t matter a jot that…
This is Barbara Pym’s last novel, published only a few months before her death in 1980. I don’t think it’s her best novel, however it’s…
The follow up hilarious instalment to the actor’s first memoir (published in 2022 called This Much is True), it is entirely possible to read Oh…
This first novel in the Jack Reacher thriller series was written in 1997. Decades later, the 28th novel has just been released (on average one…
A fascinating, all too brief, autobiography by the creator of the Commissario Brunetti murder/crime series set in present day Venice, Italy. This reviewer had only…
This, the 10th in the Rowland Sinclair series of crime novels, is, alas, the final in the series for the time being (the author’s website…
Another new series from this prolific American crime author, The 6:20 Man introduces a new protagonist named Travis Devine to the reader. As with so…
Holly Ringland is the author of two of my favourite books: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding. It…
What an absolute delight this book is! It’s a fabulous romp through 1930s Sydney, in the company of our feisty and indomitable Violet Kelly and…
This book is in fact a prequel to a long running series. I haven’t read any of the other books, so it was a perfect…