I did warn you I might embark on a John Le Carre spree! I had the intention of reading all the Smiley books in order, having purely by chance started with the first, but I […]
Category: Book reviews
57. ‘Call for the Dead’ by John Le Carre
A complete change of genre for me this week; I found some of Mum’s copies of her John Le Carre books while looking for something completely different…as one does…and promptly sat down in the glorious […]
56. ‘One Good Turn’ by Kate Atkinson.
Bang. Absolutely the best book I have read so far this year in this genre…such a skillful book. Every time a fleeting thought along the lines of ‘I should get up and do…’ entered my […]
55. ‘Wise Children’ by Angela Carter, and ‘The Woman in Black’ by Susan Hill.
Two books again – both of these were fairly quick reads, especially the Susan Hill…plus with lock down, I have found a lot more time for reading! Both of these were enjoyed sitting in lovely […]
Four great books in one abnormal post…because these are abnormal times.
Yesterday, I confined myself to barracks completely. I admit, I felt sorry for poor Vince who just got play and runs in the back garden instead of a good long hike as usual; but if […]
54. ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ by Hilary Mantel.
O. M. G. This series is amazing, I had honestly forgotten how much I enjoyed it, and I cannot recommend it highly enough! Just to recap, I re-read ‘Wolf Hall’ and then this prior to […]
53: ‘Wolf Hall’, by Hilary Mantel
Before I started writing this, I popped on to Goodreads to find some reviews from people that did not enjoy it, because I knew there had to be some. Hilary Mantel’s style of writing is […]
52. ‘Black-eyed Susans’ by Julie Heaberlin.
I am still working my way through ‘Wolf Hall’, enjoying every minute of it, but it isn’t one to be skipped through if one wants to really experience Hilary Mantel’s Tudor world…so you’ll have to […]
51. ‘The Little Friend’ by Donna Tartt
The photo above is the message Mum wrote in the front of this copy when she sent it to me in Australia in 2003. Published in 2002, ten long years of waiting since Mum and […]
50. ‘The Female of the Species’ by Lionel Shriver.
‘Still unattached and childless at the age of 59, world renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible – and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, […]
