Review: The Five, Hallie Rubenhold
Summer 2010 was a horror story for me on many levels. It was the last time that I worked a summer camp, an important friendship had dramatically imploded, I had […]
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Austen in August Review: Among The Janeites, Deborah Yaffe
Despite being a Jane Austen fan since I was ten and first picked up Pride and Prejudice, I have always hesitated to call myself a ‘Janeite’. It tends to feel weird […]
Review: The Devil in the Marshalsea, Antonia Hodgson
The Marshalsea for most of us is synonymous with Dickens, Little Dorrit and the impossible position of debtors in Victorian Britain. However, the prison which so traumatised Charles Dickens was in […]
Review: The Creation of Anne Boleyn, Susan Bordo
You know that feeling when it’s as if the book finds you, rather than the other way around? Maybe you don’t – but this was definitely what The Creation of Anne […]
Review: The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
I bought this one due to a dear friend’s recommendation. I don’t often read books in translation but I’d heard so much about this one that it was really good […]