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May 4, 2017

Murder on the Pilgrims Way by Julie Wassmer

Reviewed by Victoria If you are like me and enjoy the format of traditional cosy crime – an atmospheric setting, a great cast of…

Apple tree yard louise doughty
February 9, 2017

Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty

Reviewed by Victoria Apple Tree Yard, (now a series from the BBC), may be billed as a thriller, but like all of Louise Doughty’s…

October 16, 2016

How Sarah Waters Won Over the Reading World

By Victoria Best The press release for Sarah Waters’ new novel, The Paying Guests, describes it as ‘the most anticipated book of 2014’ and for…

October 7, 2016

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

Reviewed by Victoria You might think that writing a chronicle of a modern family might be a step down in terms of drama for…

October 3, 2016

Confidence by Rowland Manthorpe and Kirstin Smith

Reviewed by Victoria Confidence has to be one of the funniest novels that I’ve read this year. It’s a welcome return to the campus…

Two Gentlemen on the Beach
August 24, 2016

Two Gentlemen on the Beach by Michael Köhlmeier

Translated by Ruth Martin Reviewed by Victoria Who knew that Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill were great friends? I had no idea before reading…

August 23, 2016

Black Water by Louise Doughty

Reviewed by Victoria Louise Doughty is probably best known for her novel, Apple Tree Yard, which was a huge hit back in 2013. It told…

August 16, 2016

The Middlepause; On Turning Fifty by Marina Benjamin

Reviewed by Victoria When you think of all the great defining events of an ordinary life and how often they feature as the focus…

August 16, 2016

Brexit Reading

Written by Victoria In the aftermath of the historic referendum vote on 23rd June, and before we really learn what it means for all…

August 11, 2016

Negroland by Margo Jefferson

Reviewed by Victoria ‘I think it’s too easy to recount unhappy memories when you write about race,’ writes Margot Jefferson, as a refrain repeated…

Metamorphosis; How and Why We Change by Polly Morland
August 11, 2016

Metamorphosis; How and Why We Change by Polly Morland

Reviewed by Victoria ‘Our culture is one in which,’ Polly Morland writes, ‘more than ever before, we feel entitled to change our experiences and…

August 10, 2016

The Secrets of Wishtide by Kate Saunders

Reviewed by Victoria I do love a good cozy crime mystery and so I had high hopes for the new series by Kate Saunders,…

The Sacred Combe
August 4, 2016

The Sacred Combe by Thomas Maloney

Reviewed by Victoria This is the story of a regeneration, though one of the strangest and yet most serene that I have ever read….

The Good Guy by Susan Beale
August 2, 2016

Shiny New Author: Susan Beale

Questions by Victoria Has writing been a long-held ambition for you or is this novel something that you happened to fall into? How I…

The Good Guy by Susan Beale
August 2, 2016

The Good Guy by Susan Beale

Reviewed by Victoria It’s a hot early autumn in 1964 small-town America, in the up-and-coming Elm Grove estate (featuring house types named Charmer, Enchantress…

August 2, 2016

Love, or Nearest Offer by Adèle Geras

Reviewed by Victoria I don’t know about you, but the past month of UK politics has given me a pressing need to bury my…

June 29, 2016

Sergio Y. by Alexandre Vidal Porto

Translated by Alex Ladd Reviewed by Victoria I really love shrink lit. There’s something about the lucid and detailed focus on the interaction between…

June 21, 2016

A Way Through the Wood by Nigel Balchin

Reviewed by Victoria Clive James called Nigel Balchin ‘the missing writer of the Forties’, a remark that notes the period in which he was…

June 16, 2016

Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert

Translated by Helen Constantine, Editor Patrick Coleman Reviewed by Victoria If you’ve read a book by the 19th century French novelist, Gustave Flaubert, the…

June 10, 2016

Girl in Profile by Zillah Bethel

Reviewed by Victoria There are some novels that are all about the language, and Girl in Profile is one of them. How much you enjoy it…

May 12, 2016

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

Reviewed by Victoria To add to a long list of lines I wish I’d written, I read somewhere that Valley of the Dolls by…

January 25, 2016

The Prison Book Club by Ann Walmsley

Reviewed by Victoria The Prison Book Club was one of those books that I had high hopes for, being mildly fascinated by what goes on…

Woman on the Edge of Time
January 14, 2016

A Woman on the Edge of Time by Jeremy Gavron

Reviewed by Victoria In 1965, shortly before Christmas, a young, ambitious mother of two children on the brink of publishing her first book of…

December 9, 2015

Pushkin Vertigo – titles by Piero Chiara & Leo Perutz

Reviewed by Victoria Pushkin Vertigo, the new crime imprint from Pushkin Press has got off to a flying start with its first batch of…

October 27, 2015

Rembrandt’s Mirror by Kim Devereux

Reviewed by Victoria The first thing – inescapable – that you notice about this book is what a beautiful object it is. With gilt-tipped…

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