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 enjoyed them. But for some reason I never got to...
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 heading back to school, but while seated waiting for trains...
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 why I should have expected any reference in this to...
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. H. White and his book on training a goshawk. I...
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 and just flick through the art. Cai does a wonderful...
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 was discovered by Challenger and his team of explorers. A...
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 genres, science, historical, and mystery, and that’s just the books...
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 I started reading this collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories,...
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 at the beginning of the month I thought I’d give...
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 I’m still glad I read it, even if I’m pretty...
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 read this. I think I finished it at the start...
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” (1911), “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans” (1908), “The Adventure...
28 October 2018
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