Category: My Reading

  • The Stranger Diaries and The Postscript Murders

    I have written before about Doctor Ruth Galloway, the most delightful and beautifully written character in the detective novels by Elly Griffiths, all set on the Norfolk coast. I have talked to several others who have read all the books and love them as I do. (I think there is a carefully defined difference between […]

  • The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve

    The bookcase on the landing has many books upon it that I would have bought and read back in the 80s and 90s. Susan Sallis, Erica James, Katie Fforde and Anita Shreve. All female writers I notice. At that time my reading habits were very different. I was teaching full time and had 4 young […]

  • Nella Last’s War

    The Second World War Diaries of Housewife 49 When I look at the cover of this book I am always in danger of reading it as Nella’s Last War, which would of course be a different thing entirely, although I think it actually must have been just that; her last war. So this is a […]

  • The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

    Many slim Amazon packages come through my letterbox, mostly containing books. When I opened this particular one however I was slightly puzzled. I didn’t remember ordering this book, although it did look like something I would choose. Had my ordering finger clicked the button late one night? My buying does occasionally get rather random. Luckily […]