12 Birds to Save Your Life by Charlie Corbett
Whilst his mother was dying, Corbett rediscovered the value of nature, in particular birds, and how it can offer us … More 12 Birds to Save Your Life by Charlie Corbett
Whilst his mother was dying, Corbett rediscovered the value of nature, in particular birds, and how it can offer us … More 12 Birds to Save Your Life by Charlie Corbett
The thing about Leon’s books is that Commissario Brunetti is a philosopher and a realist so whilst cases might be … More So Shall You Reap by Donna Leon
This is Louise Penny back at her most brilliant: evil and forgiveness at the heart of the book and explored … More A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
It is a common device in literature to use the weather as a character and plot driver allowing us to … More L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón
I haven’t read any of this series before and I think if I had to categorise it I would put … More Every Cloak Rolled in Blood by James Lee Burke
This is my choice for book club at the start of next month. I read it some time ago and … More These Precious Days by Ann Patchett part 2
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
This was a really enjoyable book that I read in a day – it’s too hot to go outside so … More Into the Dark by Fiona Cummins
When I started this book I thought it was going to be just another book where an older woman meets … More Still Life by Sarah Winman
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