For the last few years I have been sure to read Dickens A Christmas Carol in the lead up to Christmas. It has become one…
This is the first of 3 Christmas book reviews I shall be posting during December. I don’t know about you but reading Christmassy books helps…
I wanted to make sure I read and reviewed this latest novel by Ali Smith at the appropriate time. I think despite it being a…
This was one of my much anticipated Summer Reads. Paris Mon Amour is the debut novel by Isabel Costello the author of the rather excellent The…
Grandma is a tough Scottish woman. She has had a hard life, bringing up a daughter and two sons as a single parent after the early…
One of the joys of blogging about books is being offered books to read and review. I have two rules when it comes to accepting…
Warning, I may struggle to contain my love for this book. On an island off the coast of Tuscany, surrounded by olive groves and…
Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day by Winifred Watson is quintessential Persephone. It was first published in 1938 and then republished as a Persephone Classic in…
