Review: Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
I loved this book. It’s the Gone Girl of the Victorian era – popular fiction at its very, very best. So often reading classic fiction can end up feeling somehow worthwhile or virtuous […]
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Review: Our Endless Numbered Days, Claire Fuller
Having received a copy of this from Netgalley, I read this with no preconceptions at all, which was a good thing because by the time I had finished it, it […]
Review: The Spectre Trilogy, Ian Fleming
I really, really wanted to find something to enjoy here. The first time I watched a Bond film was The World is Not Enough and I loved it. The fast cars, the […]
Review: Touch, Claire North
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August was one of my favourite reads of 2014 so I was excited to see another book by the same author. Much like its […]
Review: We Have Always Lived In The Castle, Shirley Jackson
I read this over last weekend – at a bare 140 pages, it is almost a novella but Jackson’s haunting and harrowing prose ensure that this is one of those books […]
Review: The Girl In The Red Coat, Kate Hamer
The words ‘girl in the red coat’ for me conjures up an image of the child in Schindler’s List – the iconic little girl lost. From the tale of Red Riding […]
Review: The Shining, Stephen King
Horror is a genre that in general I steer well clear of – I scare very easily. My Dad is a fan of the cheesy seventies Hammer Horror films and […]