Of all the book genres, this one puzzles me. Literary fiction. What is it? And do I like it or…
‘Far, far away, jutting out into the emptiness beyond, like the figurehead of a mighty stone ship, is the Edge.’…
I thought this book was so amazingly good when I borrowed it from the library in 2018 that I had…
If you’ve seen the film Saving Mr Banks, you’ll know that Australian author P L Travers was very reluctant for…
This fantastic volume contains three of the Discworld novels featuring witches. I’d recently begun re-reading the Discworld novels on my…
I was really looking forward to the new book from the author of the fantastic Daisy Jones & the Six.…
This is a brilliant book where art and science collide. Materials scientist, super swimmer and trumpet player, Dr Anna Ploszajski,…
I used to really like vampire stories. I’m not keen on vampires at all now, although last year I watched…
A fabulous autobiographical book by national treasure Sir David Jason, this is a collection of ‘life lessons’. It’s very readable,…
‘Hail to the lavatory!’ is the first sentence in this eccentric and surprisingly charming book which celebrates the history of…