Haven by Emma Donoghue
I have no idea what I was expecting when I picked this book up in the library but it wasn’t … More Haven by Emma Donoghue
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The Waiter by Ajay Chowdhury
The special thing about this book is that it is set in both London and Kolkata with both places being … More The Waiter by Ajay Chowdhury
Moon Lake by Joe R. Lansdale
One of the ways we used to help children to write was to show them how to boil stories down … More Moon Lake by Joe R. Lansdale
The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper
Wolf Den is the first in a trilogy of books that reimagines the stories of women that time has overlooked. … More The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
This is one of those books I picked up in the library because it had an arresting front cover and … More The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
The Man in the Bunker by Rory Clements
The Man in The Bunker is Clements 6th Tom Wilde book although it is the first of his that I … More The Man in the Bunker by Rory Clements
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
This is a remarkable story about Bella da Costa Greene who became J.P. Morgans personal librarian. Bella wasn’t born Bella … More The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
City of Vengeance by D. V. Bishop
I love a good detective series. Throughout the lockdowns I reread in order all of Donna Leon’s books, all of … More City of Vengeance by D. V. Bishop
French Exit by Patrick DeWitt
This was a fun little amuse bouche of a book about a mother and her son, not deep and multi-layered … More French Exit by Patrick DeWitt
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Gosh, this is a large book in every sense. Five hundred and eighty pages where I didn’t really get what … More Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen