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December 15, 2020

Miss Mole by E H Young

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long I seem to have spent most of my life rummaging around in second hand bookshops and in so doing have…

December 1, 2020

Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the world by Mark Aldridge

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long When I was younger and read every Agatha Christie book I could lay my hands on, she always produced a…

October 29, 2020

The Unbearable Bassington by Saki

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long Francesca Bassington sat in the drawing room of her house in Blue Street regaling herself and her estimable brother Henry…

September 15, 2020

The Lies you Told by Harriet Tyce

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long Last year I read Blood Orange, which was Harriet Tyce’s debut novel.  One of the reasons I read it was…

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September 12, 2019

The House Opposite by Barbara Noble

Review by Elaine Simpson-Long It sounds odd to begin a book review with the statement that I do not like contemporary literature. I never…

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April 30, 2019

The Strange Case of Harriet Hall by Moray Dalton

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long More and more unknown or unfamiliar writers of the Golden Age of detective fiction are being unearthed and reprinted and…

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February 7, 2019

The Real Enid Blyton by Nadia Cohen

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long When I was a little girl I used to receive the latest Famous Five book by Enid Blyton every Christmas….

July 19, 2017

The Watsons – Two Endings

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long I have recently read two finished versions of  Austen’s The Watsons, a novel fragment which, they say, she abandoned after her father’s death…

August 17, 2016

The Sinking Admiral by Members of the Detection Club, ed. Simon Brett

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long In 1932 Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers collaborated with other writers, including G K Chesterton and Ronald Knox, Freeman…

August 16, 2016

How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long We have had a few weeks of scorching weather as I write this, though it is now raining, and, of…

December 4, 2015

Caroline, and Narcissa by Richmal Crompton

By Elaine Simpson-Long As a long time fan of the adult novels of Richmal Crompton, I was delighted to hear that Bello, the digital…

April 10, 2015

The Youngest Lady in Waiting by Mara Kay

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long In Mara Kay’s first book, Masha, we followed the adventures of Masha Fredericks as she travelled to St Petersburg from her…

April 9, 2015

A War of Flowers by Jane Thynne

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long This is the third in a series of books featuring Clara Vine, a film actress in pre-war Berlin. If you…

October 31, 2014

The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long The Lost Prince is not one of Burnett’s  well known titles. The Little Princess and The Secret Garden are those that spring to mind when…

October 29, 2014

The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long Having enjoyed Daisy Goodwin’s first novel, The Last Duchess and enjoyed it greatly I was looking forward to her second, The Fortune Hunter,…

October 9, 2014

A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long Over the last ten years or so I have tracked down and read all of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s adult writing….

July 31, 2014

Angelica’s Smile by Andrea Camilleri

Translated by Stephen Sartarelli Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long I discovered the Inspector Montalbano books by Camilleri some six or seven years ago and at…

July 29, 2014

Return to Mandalay by Rosanna Ley

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long Round about this time of year publishers, publicists and bookshops turn their attention to Holiday Reading or Beach Reads.   Both…

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