I don’t think I’ve ever felt as exhausted at the end of the book as I did just now, as I reluctantly turned the final page of the thoroughly engaging “Space below my feet” by Gwen Moffat. Ms Moffat was the first woman to qualify as a mountain guide, and …
It’s been a long time since I read a book that simultaneously baffled me and had me hooked. The world of Brigitte Sharp, a hacker turned cyber-spy, is so technical and tech-heavy, that at times I had no clue what Brigitte and her colleagues in MI6 were even talking about. …
By way of a little background… In mid-December 2019, on my first walk outdoors after tearing the meniscus in my left knee, I decided to listen to a podcast from The Marathon Training Academy, hoping to inspire myself to recover and get my morale back. That day’s podcast featured a …
Initially thrilled by the sheer heft of the latest Cormoran Strike novel, which promised to be a bumper read, I was quickly disillusioned. It was long and repetitive and – oh gosh, dare I say it? – quite tedious. So much extraneous detail. So much background that we didn’t really …
What a truly delightful book. Funny, clever, compassionate and an intriguing whodunnit. And set in an upmarket retirement village in Kent, of all places. Four friends, all senior citizens, meet once a week to look through old unsolved murder files, purloined by Penny, an original member of The Thursday Murder …
This eerily prescient book about a pandemic that shuts down London has a fascinating back story. Peter May wrote the novel in 2005, but it was rejected by publishers as being too unrealistic. So Mr. May put it in his Dropbox and moved on to other projects. It was only …
This just published thriller is one of the most heart-racing, gripping books I‘ve read in ages. I’d already pre-booked “I Follow You” which was published on October 1st and it duly appeared in my kindle that same day. 2 days later, galloping through the final chapters, metaphorically turning over the …
Well, this was a fun read. A whodunnit set inside Buckingham Palace during the Second World War. Against the backdrop of London during the Blitz, a war hero, who is now a royal courtier, is found dead inside the Palace. Although everything seems to point to suicide, it is both …
It is rare that I gasp out loud with shock when reading, but I did, in the closing pages of this absolutely stunning novel. “Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook” is a beautifully crafted story that is absorbing, original, creative and has you captivated until the final pages. The book starts …
