Imogen Varney
The Wartime Book Club
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Kate Thompson has set her novel in the Channel Islands, bringing vividly to life the experiences of Jersey residents between 1940 and 1945, when the ...Read Review
Clairmont
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This novel ranges over 30 years and across Europe but again and again returns to a seminal year and place for the chief characters ...Read Review
A Woman Made of Snow
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This engaging novel begins with a plea from a person unknown and long dead. The speaker urgently begs to be named and acknowledged. ...Read Review
The Painting
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The painting at the centre of this novel is a family heirloom which Anika brought to Australia when she fled from Hungary before ...Read Review
The Mystery of Love
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In this strikingly original and ambitious book, Andrew Meehan gives us an account of the marriage of Constance and Oscar Wilde seen through ...Read Review
The Bermondsey Bookshop
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The Bermondsey Bookshop was founded in 1921 by Ethel Gutman. Its inspiration was similar to that of the better-known Workers’ Educational Association founded eighteen ...Read Review
The French Wife
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Readers of Diney Costeloe’s Children of the Siege will welcome the chance to find out what happened to the St. Clair family ...Read Review
The Animal Gazer
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This is a prize-winning fictionalised biography of the sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti (1884-1916). In his brief life Bugatti created over 300 bronzes, nearly all animal ...Read Review
Mulberry Lane Babies (The Mulberry Lane Series)
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The subject matter for this story, set in WW2 London, is obvious from the book’s cover: three young women totally absorbed by ...Read Review
Children of the Siege
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In 1870 the wealthy St Clair family had left their comfortable Parisian home to spend the summer in the country. However, they did not ...Read Review
