Review: My Dark Vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell
Tough read here. Enough people had been discussing this that I wanted to see what the fuss was about but I knew going in that it would not be an […]
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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: Lies Sleeping, Ben Aaronovitch
I finished my review of The Hanging Tree with the expressed hope that it would not take another two years for the next instalment. But then that was exactly what happened, 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 […]
Review: Lethal White, Robert Galbraith
I read this book while in the early stages of labour with my first child, so it has a special significance for me. As the contractions gathered pace, my focus […]
Review: A Maigret Christmas, Georges Simenon
Peculiar one here – I received a Netgalley proof of this and was saving it for Christmas. It promised three festive tales featuring famous literary detective Maigret. However, when I […]
Review: The Moving Toyshop, Edmund Crispin
I discovered this while looking up books set in Oxford, my adoptive hometown. High-spirited, surreal and often plain absurd, The Moving Toyshop was first published in 1946 and is a true vintage […]