The calculating stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Lady Astronaut ; 1 I’ve heard a lot of positive feedback about Mary Robinette Kowal, but the only thing by her I’ve ever read is a short story, and that...
31 July 2019
T. H. White : a biography by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Back in 2017 I read and loved H is for hawk by Helen Macdonald. In that book she talks about T. H. White and his book on training a goshawk. I...
18 February 2019
Stan & Ollie dir. by Jon S. Baird
I know that I’ve watched some Laurel and Hardy films, they used to be on the telly around Christmas, but to be honest I really couldn’t tell you if they were...
25 January 2019
The diaries of Nella Last : writing in war & peace by Nella Last
This collection brings together into a single volume the best of Nella Last’s prolific outpourings, including a great deal of new, unpublished material from the war years. Capturing the everyday trials...
28 May 2017
L.A. Confidential [based on the book] by James Ellroy dir. by Curtis Hanson
Everything is suspect…everyone is for sale…and nothing is what it seems.
22 April 2017
The South by Colm Tóibín
ISBN: 0330323334 In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland and her family for Barcelona, determined to become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and...
15 May 2016
Abide with me by Elizabeth Strout
Tyler Caskey is a minister in a small New England town. His wife, Lauren, passed away just over a year ago. Since then his youngest daughter lives with Tyler’s mother, coming...
6 March 2016
The Chimneys of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston
Tolly has returned to Green Knowe, his great-grandmother’s house, for the Easter break. But he is disappointed to discover that something is different. The painting of his previous playmates has been...
21 August 2015
The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston
Green Knowe series #1 Usually Toseland spends the holidays in boarding school, his father and stepmother are in Burma, but on this occasion he is off to spend Christmas with his...
19 June 2015
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
A Leo Demidov story. When a young boy’s body is found on the train tracks in Moscow Leo Demidov’s job is to make sure everyone knows that it wasn’t murder. After...
30 March 2015
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Part of my RIP reading, and read with The Estella Society’s Readalong. Hill House is unoccupied. The owners have tried to rent it, but tenants never stay long. The house has...
5 October 2014
The Far Country by Nevil Shute
In Australia Jane and Jack Dorman own a prosperous sheep farm, or station. For the past few years most of the money they earned has gone to pay off loans and...
21 August 2014
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