Sunday, 6 February 2022

Book Review of Mammy Banter (The Secret Life of an Uncool Mum) by Serena Terry.

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 * * * * Everything you need to know about parenthood but were rightly too frightened to ask about. There are books which tell prosp...
Sunday, 16 January 2022

Book Review of Outside by Ragnar Jónasson (translated by Victoria Cribb)

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* * * * A meteorological thriller with a twist in the usual Icelandic happy ending. Four friends who don’t necessarily like each...
Sunday, 2 January 2022

Tony Blair to join the Order of the Garter: A Protest

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 Just a few short words about this: The award of such a high honour to Tony Blair devalues every honour, even of the lowest rank, bestowed ...
Thursday, 30 December 2021

Book Review of Breakneck Point by T. Orr Munro

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 * * * * * A thriller with two heroines and several villains I am giving a five-star recommendation to a novel which I found difficu...
Monday, 13 December 2021

Book Review of The Christie Affair by Nina De Gramont

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  * * * * A novel take on the disappearance of Agatha Christie. This is a well-crafted novel based on a real-life mystery where the ...
Wednesday, 1 December 2021

Book Review of Daughter of the Sea by Elisabeth J. Hobbes

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* * * * * A romantic fantasy set in a recognisable Yorkshire landscape. In the early nineteen-nineties, a famous commissioning edito...
Saturday, 13 November 2021

Book Review of “The Man in the Bunker” by Rory Clements

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   * * * * A new twist on the ‘search for Hitler.’   This is a well-researched novel about a confused and yet pivotal period in Euro...