Review: A Glove Shop in Vienna & Other Winter Stories, Eva Ibbotson
One of my 2021 Reading Resolutions is to find more comfort reads and since Eva Ibbotson described herself as trying to write the sort of stories that people would like […]
Short Stories
Review: The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories, Edited by Jessica Harrison
I stumbled across this on the trawl for festive fiction. I adored my Collins Christmas Treasury as a child so was in the mood for something similar. But with The Penguin Book […]
Review: A Christmas Memory, Truman Capote
I’ve had In Cold Blood on my To Be Read pile for years without it ever making it to the top. Truman Capote is one of those writers where you feel […]
Review: I Am Heathcliff, Various Authors
Two hundred years since the birth of Emily Brontë, sixty-one years since the birth of Kate Bush (the two of them born coincidentally on the same day), the myth of Wuthering […]
Review: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, George R R Martin
Game of Thrones is drawing to a close. Soon we will find out the ultimate occupant of the Iron Throne. Except. It’s happening all wrong. It’s on TV rather than on […]
Review: Noel Streatfeild’s Christmas Stories, Noel Streatfeild
For the first time in living memory, this year Father Christmas did not get my note and none of the books I asked for turned up under the tree. This […]
Review: Tea With Mr Rochester, Frances Towers
Published in 1949, a year after her death, Tea With Mr Rochester is Frances Towers’ only published work – a collection of short stories which had previously appeared in periodicals. She spent […]