When We Return featured on this blog when it was on a Great Escapes tour earlier this summer. I couldn’t read it in time for a review then, but I have now. When We Return by Eliana Tobias Who should
Blog Tour | The Physicists’ Daughter by Mary Anna Evans
The Physicists’ Daughter is by Mary Anna Evans, who is touring at present with Lori’s Great Escapes tours. Ad don’t miss the Giveaway that’s part of the tour! And the reason why you think you’ve seen this post before? I
Book Review | The Royal Secret by Andrew Taylor
The Royal Secret was offered by the publishers via Netgalley; I’m very grateful to them for it. Listed as another in the Marwood & Lovett series, I didn’t realise how many there were out already. I thoroughly enjoyed Ashes of
Book Review | The Year Without Summer
The Year Without Summer caught my eye when NetGalley listed it. The eruption of Mount Tambora caused an ash cloud to reach into the upper atmosphere, and travel round the globe. I’d read about it, and others, in my geology
Book Review | A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
A Long Petal of the Sea is my first Net-galley book of 2020. It is published on 21st January, i.e. Tuesday. A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General
Audiobook Review | Master and God by Lindsey Davis
Master and God is not a Falco novel. It’s not a Flavia Alba novel either (although there is a new Flavia Alba out, and I’m getting seriously behind with that series). It is set in Ancient Rome, and it is
Book Review | Flavia Alba double act
Flavia Alba is the second series by Lindsey Davis, set in Ancient Rome, but later than her first. It’s later by a generation; Flavia Alba is the adopted daughter of the protagonist of the first series, Marcus Didius Falco. I’ve
Book Review | The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry
The Way of All Flesh turns out to be a Scottish Gothic murder mystery. I received it from Net-galley as an advance review copy. I say ‘turns out to be’ because I found the blurb intriguing, which is why I
Classic Book Review | Three Men in a Boat
Three Men in a Boat was suggested by one of our bookclub members. We wanted a classic read, and I welcomed this one rather than Jane Eyre or Charles Dickens. (Although I do want to reread A Tale of Two