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V for Victory ~ Lissa Evans
I remember somebody once pointing out to me that while most of the literature coming out of and focusing on the First World War was to do with life in the trenches, that which took the 1939–45 war as...
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The Darkest Evening ~ Ann Cleeves
I have come very late to Ann Cleeves’ novels and I haven’t actually read all of the previous books in the series featuring Vera Stanhope. Consequently, in reading this, the latest episode concerning...
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The Best Laid Plans….
Sometimes, life just doesn’t go the way you want it to. I had my schedule of posts all worked out, not just in my head but on paper even – two a week, right through to the end of October. A nice neat...
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The Children of Green Knowe ~ Lucy M Boston
I had been teaching for about three years, I think, when my headteacher came in one day and told me that I was now in charge of the school library. He wasn’t the sort of person who consulted his staff...
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The Left-Handed Booksellers of London ~ Garth Nix
Now really, I ask you, what self-respecting book blogger could resist a book with a title like that? The questions that it raises! What about the right-handed booksellers of London? What, it...
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The Postscript Murders ~ Elly Griffiths
When Peggy Smith dies, seated in the window of her retirement apartment in Shoreham-by-Sea, her friends, carer Natalka Kolisnyk, fellow resident, Edwin Fitzgerald and ex-monk, now seafront café owner,...
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Summerwater ~ Sarah Moss
Summerwater is the first novel by Sarah Moss that I have read; it won’t be the last. Located in a Scottish campsite populated by cabins which have been handed down through family generations, Moss...
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