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
And the ocean was our sky by Patrick Ness
This is a beautiful book. Even if you have no interest in reading it I would recommend you pick it up...
25 January 2019
The poison belt by Arthur Conan Doyle
Last year I read the first book in the Professor Challenger stories, The Lost World, where the land of the dinosaurs...
25 January 2019
So lucky by Nicola Griffith
Handheld Modern ; 2 I’ve really enjoyed everything I’ve read by Griffith, and she has written in a wide variety of...
20 January 2019
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
Doesn’t Christmas feel a long time ago, but that isn’t true, it was less than a month ago. In the leadup...
20 January 2019
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
My book club chose this for the January meeting, and although I hadn’t even started it when the book club met...
13 January 2019
Merry midwinter by Gillian Monks
A better time to read this book would probably be October or November as it is all about winter celebrations. But...
6 January 2019
Us against you by Fredrik Backman
originally published as Vi mot er; translated by Neil Smith Beartown ; book 2 It has been a while since I...
21 November 2018
His last bow by Arthur Conan Doyle
Containing – “The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge” (1908), “The Adventure of the Cardboard Box” (1892), “The Adventure ,of the Red Circle”...
28 October 2018
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