Secrets will always out in the same way that plants will always grow where you don’t want them. For Maclear, … More Unearthing: a story of tangled love and family secrets by Kyo Maclear
I reserved this in the library because it was a crime/thriller but it turned out to be so much more: … More All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
BK2 of the Empyrean Series It is the second year of the rider’s training and it is even more brutal … More Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
This is a long book that slowly, very slowly, depicts the fall of Campbell Flynn a professor of art, a … More Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan
The duo of Robicheaux and Purcel in Burke’s books is such a winning one. Both traumatised by the Vietnam war, … More Clete by James Lee Burke
I’m imagining that this really tough book in every way is autobiographical. That Ruth the writer in the book is … More A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Two ‘baby gangs’ meet in a square in Venice for a fight and violence and once they have all been … More A Refiner’s Fire by Donna Leon
A wonderful story, based on real-life events in Rome during WWII. An Irish priest gathers together a choir of people … More My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor