2013
To Dream Again
With a bright, noisy start on Liverpool Street station in London at the start of WW2, we see the bustling…
The New Countess
In The New Countess, Fay Weldon completes her trilogy (Habits of the House in the U.S., Love and Inheritance in…
Let Him Go
Watson’s latest tale of longing and desperation returns readers to the familiar surroundings of the mid-20th century American West. Margaret…
The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
It is 1940, and schoolteacher Eve Perkins accompanies her class on their evacuation from the London Blitz. But they fetch…
The Valley of Amazement
If you are interested in immersing yourself in the elaborate culture of the Chinese courtesan’s life of the early 20th…
The Engagements
While perhaps no one remembers Mary Frances Gerety’s name, we all know that “A diamond is forever”. Frances created the…
At Break of Day
Ho-hum, thinks the reader – yet another novel about the Great War. Misgivings increase when the story, starting on the…
Brewster
Jon, Ray and Frank are high school buddies coming of age in the late 1960s in a small town in…
The Abominable
In a sense, this book cheated me, for the blurb raised expectations of discovering yeti on Everest. Instead it is…
Stella Bain
Amid the rage of World War I, an American nurse is found wounded in France – and she has no…
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