Review: The Diabolical Bones, Bella Ellis
I was looking forward to this sequel from more or less the moment I finished The Vanished Bride. It’s a testament to the author’s skill that rather than struggling to suspend […]
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Review: Brontë’s Mistress, Finola Austin
There’s a back story for me on this one. A blogger of whom I think highly was organising the publicity tour and I was offered a space. Cover quotes were […]
Review: The Wife Upstairs, Rachel Hawkins
It opens with the classic words, ‘It is the absolute shittiest day for a walk’. Jane Bell is a dog-walker, out in all weathers walking the pampered pets of Thornfield […]
Review: The Professor, Charlotte Brontë
I read this book purely for bragging rights. I think that this says a lot about me because I don’t know anyone would be sincerely impressed to discover that I […]
Review: Redhead by the Side of the Road, Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler is one of those writers where you know in advance what you’re getting. If I were to sum her work up in a word, I would say ‘kind’. […]
Review: Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively
What a blistering and brilliant novel. Booker Prize Winner in 1987, Moon Tiger takes on themes of history, memory, morality and all the mess of what it means to be human. […]
Review: See What I Have Done, Sarah Schmidt
Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. I actually can’t remember how old I […]