A Narrow Door by Joanne Harris
A Narrow Door is, quite simply, practically perfect. It is beautifully written with a plot…
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A Men in Crisis Double Bill
This week, author Anne Coates reviews two titles, each with two interwoven timelines, where the…
Children’s Picture Books for Christmas
As ever, this year sees a bumper crop of picture books for reading aloud to…
Bookish Stocking Fillers
Christmas always sees a rash of novelty titles coming from publishers – jokey, sentimental and…
The Fires of Lust – Sex in the Middle Ages
Sex in the Middle Ages? Nasty, brutish and short, right? Well, we’ve all seen Game…
Found in Translation
This week we have two recommends from author Anne Coates, as she discovers the work…
A Halloween Read: The Shadowing
This is a fascinating story set in a time when traveling from Bristol to Nottingham…
Cliveden Literary Festival 2021
Returning for the fourth year, the prestigious Cliveden Literary Festival once again welcomes guests to…
Sea Change
Alix Nathan’s The Warlow Experiment became a Sunday Times book of the year and, like…
The Key Man
This book tells a modern version of an old, old story. A confident, clever articulate…
No Honour
Recently I caught up with the BBC4 series on Hemingway, which included a particularly arresting…
The Passenger
The publication of yet another book, even a short novel such as The Passenger, in…