So there I was, power walking up and down my Delhi driveway (we are locked down, and not allowed out to exercise), listening to one of my favourite podcasts: Marathon Training Academy. It was a recent episode in which they were chatting with a British anthropologist who just happens to …
I have never, ever been so sad to finish a book of non-fiction. Many a time I have dreaded reaching the end of a novel, but this is a first for me – when I turned the final page of this amazing book about women runners, I felt a real …
This stunning novel is the third Venetian book in a row that I have read and gosh, what a read. Mr. Hewson is a skilled teller of stories, cleverly weaving together two intricate, intertwined plots, separated by 250 years. At first, the stories seem to be running parallel to each …
Having just finished a novel about Venice, I moved straight onto another novel about Venice. Such joy! “Transient Desires”, the 30th in the stunning Commissario Guido Brunetti series, is every bit as gripping as the previous books, but it is but definitely a little darker. Although Guido’s delightful family is …
To say I devoured the latest Nathan Sutherland adventure would be a huge understatement. I’d pre-ordered the Kindle version on Amazon (sadly, Covid means fewer physical books are being shipped out to India, where I live) and at exactly one second past midnight on publication day it was delivered. 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. …
What a treat. 2 Philip Gwynne Jones novels in less than a week. No sooner had I finished “The Venetian Masquerade” than I picked up “Venetian Gothic” and thanks to a judiciously timed day of filthy, cold, freezing weather here in Delhi, where I live, plus a few accompanying aches …
What a pleasure to plunge back into the Venetian world of Nathan Sutherland, the Honorary British Consul in Venice, and otherwise a translator of documents – often boring, and increasingly Brexit related. “The Venetian Masquerade” is the 3rd in this charming series, and we are re-united with Nathan, his long-suffering …
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 …
