Review: Middle England, Jonathan Coe
I think I was still a teenager when I first read Jonathan Coe’s The Rotters’ Club, a novel about a group of teenage friends growing up in 1970s Birmingham. I was […]
Month: April 2020
Review: The Vanished Bride, Bella Ellis
Over Christmas, I agreed rather impulsively to participate in A Walk Around the Brontë Table’s #ABrontëADay Challenge for the month of May, thinking that I would have lots of time to […]
Top Ten More Lockdown Comfort Reads Vol III
Two weeks ago, I tried to come up with ten comforting reads for #LockdownLife and then ran out of space so decided I needed to do a rerun of the […]
Review: Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, Winifred Watson
I adore this book. I think it has an essential presence in any prescribed course of bibliotherapy. An irresistible Cinderella story and sparkling with wit, it’s the kind of of […]
Review: Mythos, Stephen Fry
Last summer, my car radio died. Actually it remains dead but is less of an issue since for obvious reasons, I’m not doing many long car journeys right now. Anyway, […]
Top Ten More Comfort Reads For Lockdown
So, 2020 isn’t going the way that any of us had planned. No matter what you had in mind, this wasn’t it. It’s strange, something about the year having such […]
Review: Old Baggage, Lissa Evans
Despite only making fleeting appearances in the opening pages of Lissa Evans’ previous book Crooked Heart, erstwhile suffragette Mattie Simpkin stole the show rather effortlessly. It is little surprise to see […]