This is a lovely and spirited adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, directed by Gillian Armstrong with a screenplay…
An ice-cold thriller set on the eighth-highest mountain in the world, Manaslu in Nepal. It didn’t encourage me to go…
This classic novel was first published in 1939. I hadn’t read it before, although I’d heard of it. I wasn’t…
I’m glad I finally got around to reading this short classic of the 1920s-30s Harlem Renaissance. It’s quite an intense…
I’m always sad to reach the end of the Adrian Mole series. This book was not intended to be the…
An intriguing novel about a strong-willed character who has a talent for predicting the weather. It’s set in London in…
An entertaining witchy rom-com, ideal lighter reading for the spooky season. There is also an author’s note which gives some…
In 2012, I only read 64 books. For most people, that probably seems a lot! An average of more than…
Only when I finally read the original book by Helen Fielding did I realise how the film is significantly different.…
Banned in the author’s native Ireland, these novels set in the late 1950s are a perceptive and gritty portrait of…