Author of fiction

Book Review: Bertie Plays The Blues (Alexander McCall Smith) The seventh book in the ’44 Scotland Street’ series, and McCall Smith does...

Book Review: Human Croquet (Kate Atkinson) Kate’s second novel, and this does not disappoint. Considering this was written in the...

Book Review: Behind the scenes at the museum (Kate Atkinson) This is the debut novel of a brilliant writer, who went on to produce the...

Book Review: The Importance of Being Seven (Alexander McCall Smith) Probably my favourite author; at least I have not enjoyed a series...

Book Review: The Cypress House (Michael Koryta) Koryta gives us a story of love, loss and death. Arlen Wagner travels across America...

Book Review: A God in Ruins (Kate Atkinson) This book starts you thinking. We follow the life of Ted; hero of the Second World War,...

Book Review: The South (Colm Toibin) A story about art, love and loss. Katherine Proctor follows the example her mother set many years...

Book Review: On The Other Side (Carrie Hope Fletcher) Fletcher gives us a peek into the afterlife. You could see this as a ghost story...

Book Review: The Girl in the Photograph (Kate Riordan) Alice Eveleigh, settled in a steady office job in 1932, has an affair with a...

Book Review: In the light of what we see by Sarah Painter Two young women, their youth separated by eighty years, have a connection. ...

Book Review: The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield) Anyone who liked ‘Rebecca’, ‘Jane Eyre’ or ‘The Woman in White’ will enjoy this...

Book Review: Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee Jean Louise Finch (formerly known as ‘Scout’) is returning to Maycombe from New York. Not...

Travelling to Infinity by Jane Hawking This is the true story behind the brilliant film starring Eddie RedMayne - The Theory of...

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (Alexander McCall Smith) Another masterpiece from Alexander McCall Smith, continuing to follow the...

'A Stopped Heart' by Julie Myerson A tragic story describing the deep emotion of every parent’s worst nightmare. A ghost story linking...

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Writing in the voice of Jean Louise, affectionately known as ‘Scout’, Harper Lee shows us the reality...

Book review: The Accident Season by Moira Fowley-Doyle Technically a novel for young adults. As a parent, I would consider minimum age...

Book review: A Year of Marvellous Ways (Sarah Winman) Marvellous Ways has lived her life and is living alone in a remote Cornish creek....

Book review: Elizabeth is Missing (Emma Healey) A charming, if harrowing, story about a very forgetful old lady. Maud is convinced...

Book review: The Versions of Us (Laura Barnett) A love story with a difference. Eva Edelstein and Jim Taylor have a chance meeting while...