Review: The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry
The Essex Serpent has danced on the edge of my consciousness for a long time but I only recently sat down to read it. Strangely, the fact that I lived […]
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Review: Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
As with many of the ‘classics’, I was unsure of whether or not I had read this. I think I may have been confused because I did see some of […]
Review: Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead Of Her Time, Michael du Preez & Jeremy Dronfield
Like Pope Joan, so has faded the life of Dr James Barry. He achieved huge things with his life, travelled far and wide, was the first person in the British […]
Review: His Bloody Project, Graeme Macrae Burnet
Widely seen as the ‘dark horse’ of 2016’s Man Booker Prize shortlist, His Bloody Project is a novel which defies any direct attempt at classification. Coming in the form of ‘found documents’ […]
Review: The Wonder, Emma Donoghue
I doubt that Emma Donoghue will ever escape the shadow of her best known work, Room, which drew together a fictionalised version of the Fritzl case as seen through the eyes […]
Review: My Grandmothers and I, Diana Holman-Hunt
I tracked down a copy of this after a good bit of searching – it was the author surname that caught my attention (I find the lives of the Pre-Raphaelite […]
Review: Miss Miles, Mary Taylor
This book has been my discovery of #BroodingabouttheBrontës – while I knew that Mary Taylor had been one of Charlotte Brontë’s two best friends (the other being Ellen Nussey), I had […]