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 […]
Author: Girl with her Head in a Book
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 […]
Discussion: Reading Fiction in Unreal Times
Over the past few weeks, the world we live in has shifted and shrunk. My own routine has collapsed. My son’s toddler groups have closed, my office has shut and […]
Review: The Testaments, Margaret Atwood
I learned a long time ago that a sequel is not always a good thing. There is a reason why I never rushed out to buy Go Set A Watchman. Then […]
Review: Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis
For such a long time, C.S. Lewis was just the Narnia man in my eyes. I was vaguely aware of his life story through the film Shadowlands but even that seemed […]
Review: The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, Imogen Hermes Gowar
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock was one of my most delicious reads of 2018. The review has been a long time coming because I just had so many thoughts. I […]
Extract: Miss Austen, Gill Hornby
A few months ago, I shared my review on Gill Hornby’s fabulous new novel Miss Austen, one of the most stunning pieces of biographical fiction that I can ever remember reading. […]