How lovely to be back with the Thursday Murder Club gang again! Though I must admit that the Netflix movie has irreversibly influenced the w...

Novelist Sarah Perry's first non-fiction book, Death of an Ordinary Man , was recommended by Susan Green a few weeks ago. Looking back a...

Eleanor Jones is Playing with Fire is the third novel in Amy Doak's tremendously enjoyable series; the first two are Eleanor Jones is N...

Jean Manco's Ancestral Journeys was a Brotherhood Books impulse buy, and I didn't really know what I was getting. It's actually...

This sequel to Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures takes us back to the Archipelago, that magical world peopled by talking animals...

Mark Colvin was a veteran ABC journalist who died in 2017, about a year after this autobiography was published. Sadly we never got to read t...

I am extremely late to the party on Jung Chang's international bestseller from 1991, Wild Swans . If you've been living under a rock...

I feel like there's been a bit of a buzz around Sarah Hall's novel Helm , which is centred around the only named wind in the UK (I m...

I pulled this Eva Ibbotson book off the shelves at the Athenaeum just because I knew I hadn't read it yet; it wasn't till I got home...

Drift , a free verse novel by Pip Harry, is next on my list of CBCA Notables -- this one didn't make it to the short list, but I ended u...

Apparently, trauma-informed care is all the rage in psychology at the moment, and a large part of that is probably due to this book by Besse...

No Fond Return of Love (1961) is a minor Barbara Pym work, and I think it might have been the last one published before the long hiatus whi...

Next read on the CBCA Notables list was The Edge of Everything by Miranda Luby. This is Luby's second novel and I liked it a lot . Lucy...

The October Man , from 2019, also takes us away from London, though not as far as Winter's Gifts . In this novella, we are in Germany an...

I can't remember where I heard about Tracy Westerman's book Jilya -- I think I might have seen a mention of it on Facebook (sometim...