Author Double Bill: Catch As Catch Can and Syn
Many readers will know Malcolm Hollingdrake from the ten books in his Harrogate Crime Series.…
Browsing: The Culturist
English National Ballet: Reunion
Reunion, the title of English National Ballet’s first live performance since lockdown restrictions eased, has…
The Three Locks: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure
As someone who devoured Conan Doyle’s original Sherlock Holmes stories – and indeed wrote one…
The Green Fingered General
I must have on my groaning shelves three dozen biographies of Napoleon, but not one…
Two Wrongs by Mel McGrath
How far would you go to save your offspring? Most parents would move heaven and…
Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Woman’s Life in 19th Century Japan
Looking at the soft-focus cover of Stranger in the Shogun’s City you might assume this…
The Plague Letters
What an amazing début – and certainly a tale for our own times. The Plague…
The Wood Age
Let me declare an interest here right from the start. I love trees. In fact,…
Body on the Island
Body on the Island is the second in Victoria Dowd’s The Smart Woman’s Guide to…
Glossy: The Inside Story of Vogue
This is the untold story of the world’s greatest fashion bible, Vogue magazine, narrated for the first…
The Last House on Needless Street
When a book arrives for review with endorsements from such authors as Stephen King Joanne…
The Last Good Man
The Last Good Man is a novel that is suitably dystopian for our own strange…