The beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
This was chosen by my book club as their next read, I’m not sure I would have picked it up otherwise,...
6 July 2020
The machine stops by E. M. Forster
I came across mention of this story over on Metafilter and, while I have heard of Forster I’ve never read1 any...
30 May 2020
How to stop time by Matt Haig
This is only the third book by Haig that I’ve read, but I’ve enjoyed them all and really like his style...
17 November 2019
The Spitfire girl in the skies by Fenella J Miller
Spitfire Girls ; book 2 I know we’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but when I saw...
9 September 2019
Ghost wall by Sarah Moss
I first saw mention of this book on Tor.com which described it as a book that leads us onto the muddy,...
4 July 2019
Underland : a deep time journey by Robert MacFarlane
It’s hard to summarize this book. The publisher’s blurb mentions a journey, and glaciers, and burial chambers, and the planet’s past...
27 June 2019
Things a bright girl can do by Sally Nicholls
This was one of a number of books mentioned at my last book club meeting, and as I was heading to...
17 June 2019
Badgers, beeches and blisters by Julian Evans, Ken Gill
: tree planting and woodland ownership, Irish edition As part of Biodiversity week there was a talk on trees on nearby...
1 June 2019
Nought forever by Malorie Blackman
A long time ago I read the first three books in the Noughts and Crosses series by Blackman, and really, really...
2 April 2019
Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia : Book 2 (published order) or book 4 (chronological order) In this book the Pevensie children are...
17 March 2019
The land of mist by Arthur Conan Doyle
Professor Challenger ; 3 So, in the second Challenger book no reference whatsoever was made to dinosaurs or lost worlds so...
22 February 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....
18 February 2019
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