A quirky contemporary novel about literature and relationships, the book is not in the mystery genre, although it does have…
I had no idea where the plot of this slender novel was going. I like books which are surprising and…
A strange reading experience. I wasn’t sure if the novel was supposed to be a parody of E M Delafield’s…
Richard Llewellyn’s bestselling 1939 novel was quickly adapted for film, directed by John Ford. It actually beat Citizen Kane in…
I’d heard of this controversial book but somehow never read it before. I found it in a charity shop and…
This book won the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2004. Well-deserved, I say. The author was in her twenties at…
Janet Frame’s work is interesting, but I don’t always enjoy it. This is the third of her books I’ve read,…
This fun, heart-warming read will make you want to re-watch films such as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Sixteen Candles, Weird…
Everyone was talking about this book in 2020, when it was first published. Since then, it has won the Women’s…
This novel about two very interesting pioneers, fashion designer Chanel and composer Stravinsky, sounded promising. It turned out to be…