The book is a deeply satisfying dive into 1930s theatreland, a great mystery to puzzle through and a great read. The book opens with Josephine Tey, murder mystery novelist, (a character based on one of the pseudonyms of Elizabeth Mackintosh) on a train down from the Highlands to London where her hit play Richard of … Continue reading
I’m conflicted about this book. At first I assumed that it was written for a teenage audience, which it seems perfectly suited to, until I got to the first sex scene which was perhaps more graphic than I would expect for that genre. And then the second sex scene and then… well, let’s just say that … Continue reading
Little blog, are you ok? It has been so long since your last post you probably thought I had entirely forsaken you. I can only apologise and, to be honest, tell you that I ran off with Neal Stephenson and was then seduced by the Easter sunshine. I’m sorry your writer is so fickle. But, … Continue reading
Well, Dear Reader, this is my 50th book this year! We have come a long way since Lamentation in January. So, for the 50th, I have returned to Jeanette Winterson. I have a sneaking suspicion that this book may be cleverer than I am. It felt like a fairly gibberish story to me, but Winterson … Continue reading
Finally. Finished. I was worried about this book from the start as it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and I quite regularly don’t enjoy Booker Prize winners. But the blurb on the back made it sound so exactly like the sort of book I would enjoy reading. Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special … Continue reading
Race, religion, love, gender, good and evil, justice and poetry – this book has it all. It also has a range of characters that draw you in, as much as you find them all maddening, and you ache for the pain they are causing each other. Set during the Raj, the book is written against … Continue reading
It is important to start every adventure as you mean to go on. So, having carefully created my list of 250 books to read this year, I have, of course, begun by reading a book that wasn’t on the list. In my defense, Lamentation was dropped into my lap by chance over Christmas and, as … Continue reading
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