I met up with my brother around Christmas, and he was playing the audiobook of this book, on repeat. Until that moment to me, Elton John had been the tempestuous rock star always throwing tantrums, and I was surprised to find myself laughing along.…
Richly descriptive, and concentrating on the women who went through the London Blitz (which is a subject that is underserved in fiction), this is an excellent book. Moving through different eras, it describes the life and times of three women and a…
Don't bother reading this if you already know the twist. Once you already know it, it's not as interesting and the last third is sad, but very slow. If you know the twist, and know someone who doesn't know the twist, give them this book and let them…
My best advice for Cloud Atlas? Keep reading. Keep reading after the first chapter ends in the middle of them speaking. Keep reading when the settings entirely change and you don't like the main characters. Keep reading, and you will get a…
Chesil Beach is a long stony sand bar on the Dorset coast in the south of England. It's windy, desolate and bleakly beautiful; a great place for fishing and holidays (the crime drama Broadchurch was filmed down the road). This book is not about…
Goodreads sums up this book as "1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. After…
I'm going to hold my hands up here and make a confession; this book is set very close to where my parents live, and many of the places it features are places I know very well. But what is why I recommend it. The New Forest is not a forest; it is a…
When a disfigured corpse is discovered in a country parish, the local rector pleads with Lord Peter to take on what will become one of his most brilliant and complicated cases.
You do not need to read any of Dorothy Sayer's murder mysteries in any…
