The Happy Family by Jackie Kabler: beware the stranger on your doorstep
I’m not a huge consumer of psychological crime novels or thrillers but I do turn to them whenever I need
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British authors
The Hill Station by J G Farrell — hypocrisy of the Raj
J. G Farrell had written about 50,000 words of a novel set in 1870s India when he died. He’d gone
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The General by C S Forester – a lifetime of duty
In the popular imagination, vast numbers of British infantry soldiers were sent needlessly to their deaths in World War 1
Read moreSample Sunday: 3 Doorstep Novels
My Sample Sunday spotlight this week is turned on three of the chunkiest books on my TBR shelves. As a
Read moreAll Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West: Review
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West How can I even begin to do justice to a novel so beautiful, elegant and thoughtful as All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West? This is a novel which confounds the stereotypical portrayals of older people often found in literature. I’m sure you’ve come across them. There’s the senile grandparent […]
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