Review: Tears of the Giraffe (No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency) by Alexander...
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. Tears of the Giraffe, McCall Smith's...
View ArticleReview: Nero’s Heirs by Allan Massie
In the Autumn of 68AD, Emperor Nero ruled the Roman Empire. Within, twelve months, Nero had committed suicide and three of his sucessors were dead, and out of the carnage of civil war at home and a...
View ArticleReview: Clean Break by Val McDermid
Manchester-based, kick-boxing PI Kate Brannigan takes on the hard men of European organised crime as she battles to recover a Monet in a case that stretches love and loyalty to the limits... Continue...
View ArticleReview: Bleakly Hall by Elaine di Rollo
Monty and Ada last saw one another on the front lines of the First World War, when Monty was a nurse and Ada an ambulance driver who drove like the devil. Now, the two friends have been reunited at...
View ArticleReview: Miss Buncle’s Book by D E Stevenson
Having just finished The Sisters Brothers (a Western) and Ready Player One (set in the world of computer games and geeks) back-to-back, I was in need of a lighthearted, frothy book. Preferably one with...
View ArticleReview: Gillespie & I by Jane Harris
Harriet Baxter, the narrator of this 624 page chunkster of a novel, is a remarkable character. So remarkable in fact that I read this solidly in just two days as I wanted to see how much of the story...
View ArticleReview: The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow by Mrs Oliphant
I picked up this pretty Persephone book in my subscription library recently as I am in a bit of an odd position with Margaret Oliphant's writing - I have read far, far more about this popular and...
View ArticleReview: Findings by Kathleen Jamie
I'm not sure what I expected from Jamie's writing. Much has been made of the fact that he's an award winning poet and teaches Creative Writing at university level but I think a truer influence on the...
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