Review: Last Christmas, Emma Thompson & Greg Wise
Merry Christmas to one and all! The premise of this one sounded like real Cheese on Toast but it unexpectedly won me over. Emma Thompson and Greg Wise were approached […]
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Austen in Autumn Review: There’s Something About Darcy, Gabrielle Malcolm
I am always utterly fascinated by how a literary character or even a historical figure can continue to evolve decades or even centuries after they lived or were created. Clearly, […]
Austen in Autumn Review: Miss Austen, Gill Hornby
When I spotted this book’s title, I assumed that it was another novelisation of Jane Austen’s life. Like most people, when I hear the words ‘Miss Austen’, my immediate thought […]
Austen in Autumn Review: The Jane Austen Project, Kathleen A. Flynn
First of all, I have to confess that not only did I receive a review copy of this book but when it arrived last year, the parcel also contained a […]
Review: The Last, Hanna Jameson
‘Nadia once told me that she was kept awake at night by the idea that she would read about the end of the world on a phone notification.‘ American historian […]
Review: Swell, Jenny Landreth
When I am not being Girl with her Head in a Book (and these days, I do not get to be her as often as I would like), I have several other […]
Review: The Lost Man, Jane Harper
Jane Harper always writes with an incredibly powerful sense of place and The Lost Man is no exception. However, while her two previous novels, The Dry and Force of Nature […]