December 28, 2024
Madame Bovary By Gustave Flaubert Translated by Alan Russell Penguin Books, 1950 Until I read Madame Bovary, I imagined that the late 20th and early 21st […]
September 9, 2024
A Gentleman in Moscow By Amor Towles Windmill Books, 2016 I knew that I was going to love this novel when, within the first two pages, […]
August 28, 2024
A Promise of Peaches By Valerie Volk Ginninderra Press, 2011 Through her metaphorical ‘peaches,’ Valerie Volk has captured the melancholy reality that the plump, golden peach […]
August 27, 2024
Pigs in Heaven By Barbara Kingsolver Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., New York, 1993 After reading The Poisonwood Bible years ago, I was thrilled to pick up […]
July 8, 2024
When We Were Orphans By Kazuo Ishiguro Faber and Faber 2000 It is twenty-four years since Ishiguro published this novel and I have only just discovered […]
July 8, 2024
Resistance Women By Jennifer Chiaverini William Morrow, 2020 Jennifer Chiaverini has carefully researched the lives of many of those who were working to undermine Hitler’s power […]
June 18, 2024
The Quiet Side of Passion By Alexander McCall Smith Little, Brown, 2018 Being an enormous fan of Alexander McCall Smith’s series, centring on Mma Precious Ramotswe […]
June 12, 2024
George By Emlyn Williams Richard Clay and Co. 1961 I doubt whether anyone could find this book today, but no book I have read could be […]
June 5, 2024
17 Carnations The Windsors, the Nazis and the Coverup By Andrew Morton Michael O’Mara Books Limited 2015 From the outset, I must confess that I think […]