The Island of Missing Trees is set over decades and takes place in both London and Cyprus. Lovebirds Kostas and Defne met when they… The post The Island of Missing Trees Book Review appeared first on Amy's Bookshelf.
As the story progresses Charlie comes across different layers of the truth, snippets that he hopes will reveal more. His brother Liam is sure that the culprit is Rhys, their father, who was estranged from their mother at the time…
My Thoughts Well my goodness, what an truly awful mother-in-law Margaret was! I couldn’t believe how she behaved towards her daughter-in-law Allison. Throughout her marriage she had put her down not just in subtle ways but in very vocal, direct…
Photographs include: Queen Victoria, Edith Cavell, Josephine Baker, Eva Peron, Virginia Woolf, Clara Schumann, Martha Gellhorn, Rosa Parks, Agatha Christie, Frida Kahlo, Harriet Tubman, Florence Nightingale, Hattie McDaniel and Gertrude Bell; as well as revolutionaries from China to Cuba, Geishas…
Generally, I think the characters made this book what it is; yes there were complex parts to the novel and a lot going on (I especially loved the search for Theresa which felt very reminiscent of Everything Leads to You…
‘Je suis le Marquis de Croissy, Ambassadeur à la cour de Sa Majesté le Roi Charles depuis six ans et chaque année, cette vermine arrogante’ – at this, he spat on the ground – ‘me précède dans le cortège. Je…
Jessica Gregson’s novel After Silence sounds absolutely fascinating and is due out from Deixis Press next week. Today she’s sharing #TenThings about herself and her writing. I’ve written for as long as I can remember, and it was the first…
A Child of the East End is published today by Corvus, in paperback original, priced £8.99. In 2006, when I won the Harry Bowling prize I signed my first contract with Orion for my East London post-war nurses series. I moved…
For the most part, the book was very tame and I do think it could have reached a depth that it perhaps only skimmed the surface of, however, Maya as a protagonist was fiery and confident and I loved seeing…
That’s such a difficult question. I’ll probably go for Lord of the Rings as it’s such a scholarly work as well as a triumph of the imagination. It is a story comprised of the same bedrock that all stories spring…
