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All Adults Here Emma Straub
July 23, 2020

All Adults Here by Emma Straub

Reviewed by Ann For the second time in a matter of weeks I’ve read a book that I wouldn’t normally have picked up simply…

Anne Tyler Redhead by the Side of the road
May 7, 2020

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

Review by Ann Maybe as much as twenty years ago I remember a librarian colleague at the University where I was then working saying…

April 26, 2016

The Ex by Alafair Burke

Reviewed by Ann How well does one human being ever really know another? This is the question that criminal defence lawyer Olivia Randall is…

April 7, 2016

The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths

Reviewed by Ann As far as I am concerned there are few pleasures greater than a new novel from Elly Griffiths in her series…

October 24, 2014

The Long Way Home by Louise Penny

Reviewed by Ann In many respects, How the Light Gets In, Louise Penny’s previous novel about Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, tied up a plethora of loose…

October 17, 2014

The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson

Reviewed by Ann Little Dorrit has always been amongst my favourite Dickens’ novels and so I approached Antonia Hodgson’s first novel, The Devil in the Marshalsea, with a…

October 14, 2014

All Day and a Night by Alafair Burke

Reviewed by Ann NYPD detective, Ellie Hatcher and her partner, JJ Rogan, are not best pleased when Ellie’s boyfriend, Assistant District Attorney Max Donovan,…

July 9, 2014

The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell

Reviewed by Ann Darnton Late last year I stumbled across London Falling, the first novel in Paul Cornell’s series of what might loosely – very…

After I'm gone laura lippman
April 7, 2014

After I’m Gone by Laura Lippman

Reviewed by Ann In 1976, Felix Brewer, unable to face the prospect of fifteen years in jail for illegal gambling offences, arranges to skip…

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