One of my perennial comfort reads. After all these years in print, still as surprisingly witty and fresh as a Noel Coward musical. A vibrant and wonderful short story collection from one of the 20th century’s great masters of the art.…
And, now that my boyfriend has moved in with me, long and lazy evenings curled up on my sofa with a book have been replaced with night, after night, after night glued to Breaking Bad (I know I’m fifteen years…
On May’s seventeenth birthday, a casual evasion from her employer hints at a secret hiding at the heart of the family. Determined to discover the truth, May starts listening at doors… She begins watching the faces of the people she…
Will the truth be buried with the dead? Published by HQ When DS Joe Romano first meets Ana Dobrescu she’s nervous, in serious danger, and clearly needs help. The next time Romano sees her, she’s dead. There are a host…
As well as it being rather unusual for father and son to be dating the same woman, this is something of a dysfunctional family with several of them not speaking or even contactable for a year at a time! There’s…
When Lucy’s neighbour asks her to look after her little girl for a couple of hours – and then doesn’t come back – Lucy is suddenly responsible for someone other than herself. This is Eve Ainsworth’s first adult novel. Whilst…
After reading English at the University of East Anglia, Jules Wake worked in PR where she honed her fiction writing skills on press releases. She’s now a full-time author and what better job is there than making stuff up! It…
The premise of the story is one of meeting the right person but at the wrong time. Albert is from an aristocratic family whilst Violet is from a working class family in Abergavenney, and in each of the different times…
There are times when Lacey seems to be her own worst enemy by going it alone however it is this stubborn character trait which I’ve always enjoyed and which adds to the tension, there were times when I really resented…
About the book There is great storytelling as all the women look back on their lives and recount what they have learned about love from their experiences with the men in their lives. They don’t gloss over the fact that…
