Another sumptuously beautiful book. Arthur: the Always King is a straight recounting of the Arthur legends, in Kevin Crossley-Holland...

  Another novel with a long queue of eager readers waiting for it at the library. And what a beautiful novel! It probably helps if you like ...

What a lovely book! I was late to the party on The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling , but I'm so glad I made the effort to catch up w...

  Someone on my blog recommended Adam Kay's bestselling memoir, This Is Going To Hurt , and it certainly rang a bell, but it wasn't ...

  I ordered the final volume in Monica Edwards' Romney Marsh series, A Wind Is Blowing , ages ago -- so long ago that I accidentally ord...

Dear reader, I had a holiday. First time since 2016. And I gloried in READING for a whole week (as well as swimming and walking along beache...

  The Talking Cure , co-written by Australian therapists Gillian Straker and Jacqui Winship, is an unusual concept. Rather than writing abou...

  I've always been fascinated by the real life mystery of Agatha Christie's life -- her eleven day disappearance in 1926, just after...

  This is one of my favourite Noel Streatfeild books but oddly, I don't own a copy of it. I know it better under the title Curtain Up , ...

  I'd seen a lot of rave reviews of Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, so my expectations were high when I finally seized it from t...

  I love Richard E. Grant, I would watch him in anything, and I loved his autobiographical film Wah-Wah and enjoyed his diaries about the m...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that you can be waiting for months for a single book to become available from the library; but then f...

  I must confess I approached Robyn Schneider's The Other Merlin with a degree of trepidation. This is a book very much in the current ...

  It's rare for me to read the book after watching the series, but in this case, I came across Slow Horses first on Apple TV and though...

This book was an absolute treat! Ruth Wilson looks back over a long life (she is nearly 90) through the lens of re-reading each of Jane Aust...