Lockdown – Christine's Book Reviews

CAMINO WINDS by JOHN GRISHAM

christine 2020 / American authors / Crime / Fiction / Thriller 10 December 2020 10 December 2020 4 Comments

Disclosure time. On our first outing to a bookshop since lockdown in March, I was quite clearly not concentrating properly. As I excitedly browsed real books, as opposed to online shopping, I thought I heard the bookshop owner say “The latest from John Grisham”. My husband heard “The latest Camino …

LOCKDOWN by PETER MAY

christine 2020 / Fiction / Thriller / UK 13 October 2020 13 October 2020 Leave a comment

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 …