A sophisticated dystopian / conspiracy thriller which was horribly plausible. Some of it is set only a decade in the…
A complex, thought-provoking novel which kept me reading on, despite being nearly 500 pages and tending towards giant paragraphs! The…
Romance is one of the most popular genres of fiction and yet I have never been able to get into…
I had mixed feelings about Carty-Williams’ debut Queenie but I was interested to read her next book. I think it’s…
A beautifully-written novel about grief, hope and miracles. It had the feel of a Christmas movie but on the right…
In 2017, I read 104 books, which is more like my average. Considering that I had a lot going on…
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…