Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
This must be the most gentle pandemic novel I have read so far, even more gentle than Lucy by the … More Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
This must be the most gentle pandemic novel I have read so far, even more gentle than Lucy by the … More Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Dr Giordano Bruno is off on his travels again, this time to Prague at the behest of Walsingham because one … More Alchemy by S.J. Parris
It is a long time since I cried at the end of a book but that is exactly what I … More Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
I am a bit conflicted by this Portico Prize winner. The writing is good and in places very good and … More Saltwater by Jessica Andrews
I love an American road trip book – not sure if it is a genre, maybe as a quest or … More The Road by Cormac McCarthy
We take colour for granted nowadays. We can have our cars in all sorts of colours and finishes, the walls … More The Colour Storm by Damian Dibben
This was a great book to listen to as I gardened and did the housework. Enough to keep me interested … More Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes
The follow-up to The Dictionary of Lost Words, The Bookbinder of Jericho sticks to similar themes and to the world … More The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
A memoir with recipes. And of course everything is not under control from her anorexia as a young dancer to … More Everything is under control by Phyllis Grant
The family Chao or Chow if westernised and if there was more than one, add an s and it becomes … More The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang