Sally Zigmond
A Lady of Quality
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Two of my all-time favourite books when I was a child were The Secret Garden (1911) and A Little Princess (1905). Even now, I still ...Read Review
The Liar’s Daughter
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The “father” in question is Lord Nelson—or is he? Here, the first daughter of the title is Nan, whose mother claims to ...Read Review
The Goddess and the Thief
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Only the other week, I came across the term “Oriental Gothic”. And that is exactly how I would describe Essie Fox’s latest ...Read Review
Bellman and Black: A Ghost Story
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The subtitle sets this up to be a discomforting read, and indeed, it is, but it is also completely engrossing. As a boy, ...Read Review
Awakening
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1860. A year after Charles Darwin published his groundbreaking Origin of Species, the evangelical community of Wiltshire has far more important matters on their ...Read Review
Paper Moon
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The novel is set just after the end of World War Two, and the author captures well that sense of desolation of rationing, ...Read Review
Elijah’s Mermaid
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There is always a fear that an author’s second novel will not live up to the first. I was very impressed with ...Read Review
The Life of Rebecca Jones
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This slim volume was originally published in Welsh to great acclaim. Rebecca Jones looks back in old age to her long life on ...Read Review
The Somnambulist
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This assured debut novel tells the story of Phoebe Turner, a young girl who lives in the East End of London with Maud, ...Read Review
The Ballad of John Clare
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Very little is known about the early life of John Clare, the ‘peasant poet’ who was a contemporary of Keats and Shelley. But ...Read Review
