May 25, 2017 The Night Visitor by Lucy Atkins Reviewed by Judith Wilson The Night Visitor is Lucy Atkins’ third novel, and as I’d devoured the first two, I was keen to…
February 9, 2017 The January Man by Christopher Somerville Reviewed by Judith Wilson It was early January when I requested Christopher Somerville’s new walking book for review. I was simultaneously intrigued by its…
April 21, 2016 The Ballroom by Anna Hope Reviewed by Judith Wilson There’s an intriguing tension between the title of Anna Jones’s second novel, The Ballroom, and its setting: a bleak mental asylum…
January 22, 2016 The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton Paperback review by Judith Wilson This book arrived with impeccable timing: I was tired of unseasonably warm UK temperatures and longing for a December…
January 21, 2016 Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín Paperback review by Judith Wilson I read Brooklyn when it was originally published by Viking in 2009; it was the first novel I’d encountered by Irish-born…
April 21, 2015 Weathering by Lucy Wood Reviewed by Judith Wilson I began reading Weathering whilst staying on a Cornish estuary within sight of the sea, on a cold, damp day. This was…
