Book review: Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout (Amgash #3)

What a joy it is to have a new Elizabeth Strout novel! This is the third featuring Lucy Barton. Lucy…

Book review: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Small Things Like These is just my kind of book, quietly powerful, beautifully told. Bill Furlong is a coal merchant…

In The Dangerous Kingdom of Love, lawyer, politician and philosopher Francis Bacon struggles to advance his place at the court…

The Echo Chamber features a deeply unappealing family whose life is upended by their addiction to celebrity culture and, in…

I was interested in this novel because I recently read Conn Iggulden’s Conqueror series, which tells the story of Genghis…

This is one of my occasional series where I share my thoughts on the whole of a book, so if…

China Room begins in a Punjabi village in the 1920s. Mehar is one of three young women who have just…

The Great Mistake is a novel based on the life and death of Andrew Haswell Green, the “Father of Greater…

Asha Ray has a bad time in high school – she’s clever but she doesn’t fit in socially, and feels…

This is the first of two books Charmian Clift wrote about her life in Greece with her husband, George Johnston,…