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As a keen gardener myself I know only too well the pleasure that can come from gardening and from...
I really enjoyed the first two books in this series - Then We Take Berlin and The Unfortunate...
As the author explains in her Historical Note, The Household has its basis in historical fact....
My initial thought as I read Mania was, ‘Go on Lionel, get it all off your chest’. In the...
The Book of Fire has a strong environmental message. Even before the fire that devastates part of...
Night Train to Marrakech is the third and final book in the author's Daughters of War series....
Emma Sky uses her experience of having worked and travelled extensively in the Middle East to...
After That Night is the first book I've read by Karin Slaughter, although I'm aware she has...
What's the point of writing a review of this entertaining combination of ghost story and...
I'm absolutely convinced this book with its wonderfully colourful illustrations and gloriously...
There was so much I loved about this book, and I'm not even its target audience being...
The story unfolds in alternating chapters moving between 1629 aboard the Batavia, and 1989 on...
As might be guessed from the title, Thea and Denise is inspired by the author’s favourite film,...
This was a book of two halves for me. I really enjoyed the first section set in Karachi in 1988...
Portable Magic is a fascinating, in-depth examination of books as physical objects, from their...
A Ration Book Victory marks the end of an era in more ways that one. Firstly, as the title...
My first thought is that I’m not sure the long blurb does the book any favours – personally, I...
These Days is set between April and May 1941, focusing on four days during which Belfast was...
The Silver Wolf is the first book in a planned trilogy featuring the feisty and resourceful Jack...
The Cornish Captive is the sixth novel in the author’s Cornish Saga series. I have only read one...
A Three Dog Problem proved to be the perfect contrast to the run of rather serious books I’ve...
A Memory For Murder (translated from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce) is the first book I’ve read by...
I’ve become a great fan of Elisabeth Gifford’s previous books having read and enjoyed The Sea...
I haven’t read either of the previous two books in the series – Post Mortem and Death Message –...
Well, all I can say is that it’s hard work being a newcomer to Pine Road because, based on...
I've not read the author's previous novel, the best-selling The Beekeeper of Aleppo, but having...
Nina’s part of the story, revealed through her journal and other papers, features a particularly...
I’ve enjoyed all the previous books in this series that I’ve read having first been introduced to...
My Sister, The Serial Killer is a short book but for me that just added to its attraction. I...
S. W. Perry’s novels featuring physician Nicholas Shelby and tavern owner Bianca Merton have fast...
The Ice House was one of the first books I won in the weekly prize draw from Readers First and...
The story of Missy’s current, rather empty daily life is interspersed with memories of her first...
As the author reveals in the afterword, although many of the characters are fictional, Stella...
Phil’s plan to spend the summer of 1979 hitchhiking across Europe with a pal, chatting up girls...
As far as I’m concerned it’s always a cause for celebration when a new book in Rory Clements’ Tom...
In Babbel’s End, the author creates a picture of a community which exhibits all the features of...
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