I didn’t know anything about John Wilkes Booth apart from the fact that he assassinated Abraham Lincoln, so Booth was … More
Category: Historical fiction
Book review: The Colony by Audrey Magee
Lloyd is travelling to a remote Irish island because he wants to paint the cliffs. He is going in a … More
Book review: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
I loved A Little Life so I was looking forward to getting to grips with another big book by Hanya … More
Book review: The Dangerous Kingdom of Love by Neil Blackmore
In The Dangerous Kingdom of Love, lawyer, politician and philosopher Francis Bacon struggles to advance his place at the court … More
Book review: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
I was interested in this novel because I recently read Conn Iggulden’s Conqueror series, which tells the story of Genghis … More
Book review: China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
China Room begins in a Punjabi village in the 1920s. Mehar is one of three young women who have just … More
Book review: The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
The Great Mistake is a novel based on the life and death of Andrew Haswell Green, the “Father of Greater … More
Series love: Ruth Downie’s Gaius Petreius Ruso mysteries
Ruth Downie’s crime series set in Roman Britain is my current favourite comfort read. Gaius Petreius Ruso is a Roman … More
Book review: The Drowned City by KJ Maitland (Daniel Pursglove #1)
The Drowned City is the first in a new series, and under a new name, by historical mystery writer Karen … More
Fifteen great novels about mothers
Of course, mothers are everywhere, in life and in fiction. There aren’t many novels that don’t have a mother in … More