An Independent Woman by Sophia Holloway I have had the pleasure of reading and reviewing several of Sophia’s books, in which I have always become really engaged by for their romance, plot, historical accuracy and clever humour. I’m happy to say that her latest offering combines all of these elements and even more insights into More An Independent Woman by Sophia Holloway wonderful Regency novel of…
Murder in Paris – The Blind Detective Investigates by Christina Koning This well written and impressive novel is actually the tenth in the series. It is, however, undoubtedly a book that can be read alone as an excellent novel. It is set in April 1945, before the ending of the Second World War, but following More Murder in Paris The Blind Detective Investigates by Christina Koning A murder mystery…
Three Wartime Women from Handheld Press The Voluble Topsy by A P Herbert Army Without Banners by Ann Stafford Where Stands a Winged Sentry by Margaret Kennedy You may have heard that Handheld Press recently closed, and many of their books were sold on Postscript etc. I managed to get a dozen titles and have More Three Wartime Women Fascinating real life accounts of the Second World War from…
Young Mrs Savage by D.E. Stevenson This is one of Stevenson’s delightful books set in a small Scottish town. It features a family affected by the Second World War: a young woman left widowed with four young children. This novel was originally published in 1949 and has been reprinted by Furrowed Middlebrow at Dean Street More Young Mrs. Savage by D.E. Stevenson a lovely 1949 novel of family…
Death on Fleet Street by Anna Sayburn Lane This is not a straightforward review – because I have realised that this is the fifth in a series of 1920s murder mysteries that I have not reviewed! This is a shocking omission as I have enjoyed every single one of these books and would heartily recommend More Death on Fleet Street by Anna Sayburn Lane the latest in a brilliant 1920s series of murder…
Silence After Dinner by Clifford Witting I have read many Golden Age and postwar detective books, including several by this author, but rarely have I encountered one as clever as this one. When I first realised that some of the action (not a lot, it transpired) took place in China, I was not that keen More Silence After Dinner by Clifford Witting a 1953 murder mystery set in an English village…
A Death on Location by the Reverend Richard Coles This well written novel is the fifth Canon Clement Mystery, and like the others it includes a range of fascinating and very realistic characters in a rural setting set in the early 1990s. There is a great deal of underlying humour in the way the whole More A Death on Location by the Reverend Richard Coles the latest installment of murder and more…
The Eights by Joanna Miller This book was an accidental discovery, but one that I am very glad to have made. It is a novel which is so convincing that I wanted to check if some of the characters really existed – there are some on the periphery who were real, like Vera Brittain, and More The Eights by Joanna Miller four of the first female undergraduates at Oxford in 1920 in a novel of loyalty and…
A New Home at the Wartime Hotel by Maisie Thomas Fans of wartime stories will find another series to love in this first book of a new set of novels. I am a huge fan of “The Railway Girls” series that Thomas also wrote, in which she cleverly brought together a group of women with More A New Home at the Wartime Hotel by Maisie Thomas a saga of wartime women in difficult circumstances in Manchester…
Double Stakes by Alison Morton Over the years I have had the pleasure of reading many of Alison Morton’s books. Some have been from her Roma Nova series, which features a world in which the Roman Empire has continued, with female leadership and women taking the lead in many roles. The series in which Double More Double Stakes by Alison Morton a contemporary thriller featuring a determined young…