Review: The Lady Elizabeth, Alison Weir
So, Alison Weir is a bestselling historian, specialising in the sixteenth century. When I was eight, I fell in love with the Tudors as a group, for the first time […]
Month: September 2011
Girl with her Head in a Book’s Top 10
I don’t think I can fairly say that I have a favourite book, but I think I can pick a favourite few. Possession – AS Byatt The Virgin Suicides – […]
Film Review: Jane Eyre
OK, this isn’t part of my reading diary but it gave me enough to think about that I wanted to write it up so I thought here was as good […]
Review: Girl Meets God, Lauren Winner
I was lent this one by a friend and again it is not what I normally read but I’ve been reading a lot about World War Two at the moment […]
Review: Witch Light, Susan Fletcher
I read Fletcher’s first novel, Eve Green about six years or so ago and really enjoyed it, plus I was intrigued by what I read on the blurb about the […]
Review: Thud, Terry Pratchett
As a teenager, I was a huge Discworld fan, I still have nearly thirty of them somewhere up in the loft, awaiting the day I move out and get bookshelves […]
Review: How the Girl Guides Won the War, Janie Hampton
This one was a bit of an impulse buy, but the title caught my attention and after a quick glance at the introduction I felt that as a life-long Guide […]