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The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
I can remember the time when this book is set – the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. I was about thirteen years old and used…
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Emergency by Daisy Hildyard
This must be the most plotless, but definitely not pointless, book I have ever read. It is our choice, picked out of a hat of…
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The other side of Mrs Wood by Lucy Barker
A tussle between two mediums in the late 1800s ends with a more mature understanding of women supporting women than their behaviour might have suggested.…
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Novelist as a vocation by Haruki Murakami
The minds of writers fascinate me because they are so different to mine. Often after reading book I will consider what a writer must have…
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Sutler by richard House
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The artist by lucy steeds
This book fits neatly into the genre of ‘artist as monster’ if there is such a genre and I seem to have read several recently.…
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Ahhh. The comfort of a well-known and liked series. Sam Wyndham and Surendranath Banerjee, English and Indian, solving a despicable crime in the case of…
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I tried, I really, really did. I so wanted to read this book but in the end had to admit defeat. It isn’t the plot…
Trying to read all the good books 