Review: Troubled Blood, Robert Galbraith
I have never believed that you have to attend every argument that you’re invited to and when I checked Twitter on the morning of this book’s release, I seriously considered […]
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Review: White Boots, Noel Streatfeild
It has long been my belief that you never read the same book twice and so it was when I sat down to reread White Boots. The last time I picked […]
Review: Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
So. A little late to the party, I recently discovered Outlander. I remember it as a topic of conversation a few years ago but although I nodded along to the […]
Review: My Sister, The Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite
A title like that is a definite attention-grabber and perhaps this is why this book that has been literary-Marmite over the past few years. Every review I read either praises […]
Review: The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker
Another day, another retelling of the Trojan war. Reading this more or less concurrently with A Thousand Ships led to a certain amount of confusion over which author said which. Like […]
Review: The Attack on Troy, Rodney Castleden
Back in the hopelessly optimistic days of early 2020, I went to the British Museum’s Troy: Myth and Reality. Contrasting ancient artwork and artefacts with the findings of archaeological digs along […]
Review: A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes
Natalie Haynes has long been responsible for my classical education via her wonderful Radio 4 series Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics, yet I hadn’t realised that she was […]