Last summer I paid a visit to the beautiful cottage in Dorset where Thomas Hardy penned many novels, stories and poems. Just over a year later…
The Bees, Paull’s debut novel a was shortlisted for the 2015 Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. She didn’t win, but she was in the esteemed…
It took me a little time and perseverance to find my way with this book. It’s the second book by Sara Crowe, perhaps best known…
Back in December I read ‘My Brilliant Friend’, the first in the series of Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante. It has taken me 6 months…
Daughter is Jane Shemilt’s first book and there appears to be a lot of her self in this. In real life Jane is a GP and…
Earlier in the year I set myself the task of reading 5 classics I really should have read before. It’s now June, we are half…
‘Searching For Caleb’ was this holiday’s Anne Tyler book of choice. It was surprisingly, first published way back in 1975. I wouldn’t have realised that…
This was the second of the Bailey’s long listed books I chose to read this year. I have never read anything by Anne Enright before…
