French Braid – Anne Tyler – £16.99 hardback When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone is determined not to notice. […]
Limestone Books
July 2022 reads
Domestic Bliss & Other Disasters by Jane Ions, £9.99 paperback Sally’s son Dan has come back home from college after completing his performing arts degree. He needs rent-free accommodation, friends, […]
Our reads in June 2022
I am not your Eve – Devika Ponnambalam, £12.99 Hardback A polyphonic novel of Teha’amana, the Tahitian muse and child-bride to Paul Gauguin. Told from her point of view, both […]
Books we read in May 2022
It’s been a long time since we blogged on here. Life has got in the way, and so has the re-opening of the shop. We’d like to say a HUGE […]
Our July distractions…..
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers. £8.99 paperback. 1957, the suburbs of South East London. Jean Swinney is a journalist on a local paper, trapped in a life of duty and […]
What we read in June
Dying in the Wool – Frances Brody – £8.99 paperback Yorkshire, 1922. Bridgestead is a quiet village. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens, except for the day when Joshua Braithwaite […]
What we read in May
The Mermaid of Black Conch, Monique Roffey, £8.99 paperback. Escape to the ocean this summer with the entrancing, unforgettable winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2020. Near the […]
April’s reading list……..
Nick by Michael Farris Smith, £12.99 in hardback. Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby’s world, he was at the centre of a very different story – […]
What we’ve read in March……
Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander, £16.99 Hardback Seventh Seltzer has done everything he can to break from the traditions of the past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother’s last […]
What we read in February
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, heads for occupied France on a dual mission – officially, to run a simple errand for a […]