The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
I’ve read quite a few books recently that I haven’t enjoyed – my fault, poor choice – but this was … More The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
I’ve read quite a few books recently that I haven’t enjoyed – my fault, poor choice – but this was … More The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
This was our latest book club choice and is the second time I have read it, this time being much … More Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
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
I loved this book and read it in 24 hours – it is a reasonably quick but wonderful read. Set … More Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott
This is our next book club read and when I looked through the list of O’Brien’s titles I realised that … More The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien
A story of female friendship set in 1609 based on a true murder which turns out not to be a … More A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago
This is one of those books I picked up in the library off the returns shelf – always a few … More The Abstainer by Iam McGuire
This is the follow-up to The Miniaturist where we find the family still living alongside The Herengracht Canal in Amsterdam … More The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton
‘Words are like stories, don’t you think Mr Sweatman? They change as they are passed from mouth to mouth; their … More The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Two authors because this book was half-written when McIlvanney died in 2015 and Rankin picked up the gauntlet and finished … More The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin