Highgate Rise by Anne Perry
Highgate Rise is the eleventh novel in a series of thirty two, featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. Thomas Pitt, the son of a former gamekeeper,…
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The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
If this is an example of the YA/adult cosy fantasy genre, let there be more! It was a real pleasure to find a well plotted…
The Aspern Papers by Henry James
This is a novella by Henry James, based loosely on letters kept by Claire Clairmont from the poet Percey Bysshe Shelley. The setting of the…
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The Ministry of Time is about controlled time travel with an historical aspect. It also displays manipulation and intrigue with a touch of romance, all…
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
We Come With This Place is deeply personal and a profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs, but it…
The Secret by Lee Child and Andrew Child
The 28th instalment of the very popular Jack Reacher thriller series returns to the time when Reacher is still with the US Military Police. Demoted…
The Wartime Book Club by Kate Thompson
Reading was the only true form of joy and solace, the only intellectual freedom they still possessed and they cherished it like life itself. Another…
Landlines by Raynor Winn
This is Raynor Winn’s third book, following on from The Salt Path and The Wild Silence. If you have read these previous books, you will…
The Wench is Dead (Inspector Morse #8) by Colin Dexter
Who can resist a story within a story? This is the 8th instalment in the Inspector Morse series, but it didn’t matter a jot that…
A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym
This is Barbara Pym’s last novel, published only a few months before her death in 1980. I don’t think it’s her best novel, however it’s…
Oh Miriam! by Miriam Margolyes
The follow up hilarious instalment to the actor’s first memoir (published in 2022 called This Much is True), it is entirely possible to read Oh…
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1) by Lee Child
This first novel in the Jack Reacher thriller series was written in 1997. Decades later, the 28th novel has just been released (on average one…