The Philosopher’s Daughters By Alison Booth Audio Book Read by Rose Robinson Publisher: Aurora, 2020 Being set initially in late 19th-century London, then later […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lonely Castle in the Mirror By Mizuki Tsujimura Penguin Books, 2022 ‘I sometimes find myself dreaming.’ When I read the opening sentence to this Young Adult […]
