Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore begins and ends with short chapters set in the present. The story proper commences in 1789 with a man burying a woman’s body in an isolated glade in the fading darkness before sunrise. Three years on Lizzie Fawkes begins her story - she is newly married to widower, John Diner … Continue reading Book Review – Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
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My Reading – May 2017
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova Mothering Sunday : A Romance by Graham Swift Typewriter Music by David Malouf The Muse by Jessie Burton The Marriage Certificate by Stephen Molyneux A Glimpse of Happiness by Jean Fullerton
My Reading – April 2017
Grief is the thing with feathers by Max Porter. The first stone : some questions about sex and power by Helen Garner La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette Deadly intent by Anna Sweeney Save
My Reading – March 2017
Nutshell by Ian McEwan Miss Nobody by Ethel Carnie Epitaph by Maria Russell Doria One Woman's War and Peace : A Nurse's Journey Through the Royal Australian Air Force by Sharon Bown
My Reading – February 2017
Wild Island by Jennifer Livett The Forgotten Highlander by Alister Urquhart Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Save
My Reading – January 2017
The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski Doc by Mary Doria Russell The Bertie Project by Alexander McCall Smith (many spoilers)
My Reading for 2016
This year I have done reasonably well with the number and spread of books I have read - mainly historical fiction, some classic fiction, a few non-fiction and some literary fiction including a handful definitely outside my comfort zone. This list, naturally, does not include the number I have started but not finished which were … Continue reading My Reading for 2016
My Reading – December 2016
A Bluestocking in Patagonia by Anne Whitehead Habits of the House by Fay Weldon By the Sword by Alison Stuart
My Reading – November 2016
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh All that man is by David Szalay Do not say we have nothing : a novel by Madeleine Thien
One Minute Book Review – Umbrella by Will Self
I picked this book up after hearing that it dealt, in fictional form, with similar experiences to Oliver Sach's Awakenings. I put it down after a single page as I had no desire to force myself through 400 pages of unpunctuated stream of consciousness. Months later I came across the audiobook (someone else had done … Continue reading One Minute Book Review – Umbrella by Will Self
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