Kate Atkinson delivers a hilarious murder mystery that pays a winking homage to the Golden Age of crime fiction
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Reading Update: November 2024
December 10, 2024
November was the month I finally accepted that I am no superwoman. All my good intentions to catch up on my backlog of reviews remained just that — good intentions. Instead of making inroads, the backlog is actually getting longer each month. And I really can’t see that changing in the next few weeks unless […]
Kate Atkinson has become a “must read” author ever since I read her debut novel Behind The Scenes at the Museum. Shrines of Gaiety isn’t one of her best but, for me, Kate Atkinson on an off- day is still way ahead of many of her contemporaries. This novel plunges us into the heart of […]
What I’m Reading : Episode 56, April 2024
April 25, 2024
I can’t believe that I last published a “What I’m Reading” post six months ago. I already knew I’d got out of the habit of doing one of these updates but hadn’t realised I’d let it slip that far. I’m going to make a conscious effort now to get back into some kind of routine. […]
What I’m Reading : Episode 49, October 2022
October 26, 2022
What I just finished reading Last night I read the final story in Maybe This Time, a collection by the Austrian author Alois Hotschnig. I read these with a sense of unease. They’re all unsettling tales that involve loss of identity and characters who are in a form of suspended life. All but one has […]