Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley, £10.99 paperback Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was ‘just’ an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn’t? As Lucy Worsley says, […]
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August Reads 2024
How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino, £10.99 paperback The inspiration for The Boy & The Heron, the major new Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli film. In How Do You Live?, Copper, […]
What we read in July
Sally Vickers – The Gardener, £9.99 paperback Artist, Hassie Days, and her sister, Margot, buy a run down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on the Welsh Marches. While Margot continues […]
June’s reading list
Amy Twigg – Spoilt Creatures, £18.99 hardback They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. It was a place for women. A remote farm tucked […]
What we read in May
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry, £20.00 hardback Thomas and Grace are fellow worshippers at the Baptist chapel in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, […]
April’s reading list
Susan Parry – Tracks in the Dark, £9.99 paperback One teenage girl strangled in an isolated Dale, a walker lost on the Herriot Way, and a cyclist who has disappeared. […]
What we read in March 2024
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, £9.99 paperback Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, […]
February’s Reads – 2024
The Beholders – Hester Musson, £16.99 hardback June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of the River Thames, suspected to be the beloved missing child […]
Reads in January 2024
Saint Maybe – Anne Tyler, £9.99 paperback When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family’s optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, […]
December reads
Mistletoe Malice – Kathleen Farrell, £9.99 paperback A rediscovered festive classic with fangs. The fire is on, sherry poured, presents wrapped, and claws are being sharpened. In a seaside cottage […]