One Moonlit Night – Caradog Prichard (translated by Philip Mitchell)
Rating: 5 stars This was not a book I would have come across on my own. Originally written in Welsh, and chosen by my local book club, One Moonlit Night was a [...]
Big Little Lies – Liane Moriarty
Rating: 5 stars Big Little Lies was a birthday gift for which I am extremely grateful. I was totally hooked from start to end, and it’s a book that starts (very [...]
The Girls – Emma Cline
Rating: 5 stars The Girls is one of those now ubiquitous ‘not-quite-based-on-a-real-crime’ crime stories. I was put off by the name and the fact that it was related to a real crime, and [...]
Jonathan Unleashed – Meg Rosoff
Rating: 5 stars I love it when my hints work and I get given a book I’ve been longing to read. I heard parts of the Radio 4 Book at Bedtime serialisation [...]
The Wonder – Emma Donoghue
Rating: 5 stars Yet another of my recent railway station purchases, I picked up The Wonder because I loved the film of Room, Emma Donoghue’s novel published in 2011, and hoped that this new novel [...]
House of Orphans – Helen Dunmore
Rating: 5 stars Early this June, when Helen Dunmore died at the age of just 64, I was reading her novel House of Orphans, published originally in 2006; it’s only now, nearly nine [...]
WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES – KAREN JOY FOWLER
Reviewed by Louise Rating: 5 stars This was, without a doubt, one of the best books I have ever read. And it kind of snuck up on me. I wasn’t [...]