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Tantalus by Jane Jazz
I came across Jane Jazz when she made a comment on one of my posts and when I looked at her blog I discovered that she had written a novel - Tantalus, a love story set in the Yorkshire moors and marble...
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Books read in April
April was a good reading month – I finished reading 9 books, bringing my total for the year so far to 35: The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga 3) by Mary Stewart The Potter’s Hand by A N Wilson The...
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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman is one of those authors I keep reading about on other book blogs and I’ve been meaning to check out one of his books for ages just to see for myself. I didn’t think his books were probably...
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The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
I like fantasy, so when I came across The Book of Lost Things, a modern version of traditional fairy tales that has glowing reviews from various sources, I was keen to read it. Fairy tales are full of...
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Once Upon a Time VIII Challenge Completed
Carl’s Once Upon a Time Challenge for this year ended on 21 June and I exceeded my expectations – well, it wasn’t hard as I aimed very low with The Journey, which was to read at least one book within...
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The Classics Club Spin Result …
Yesterday the Classics Club announced the result of the latest spin – list 20 books from your Classics Club list and the number picked in the spin is the book you read by 6th October 2014. The number...
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The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier, has been sitting on my bookshelves for 7 years (and moved house with me). It’s one of those books that I kept taking down off the shelf, flicking...
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What’s In A Name 7: Completed
Hosted by by Charlie at The Worm Hole this challenge runs from January to December 2014. During this time you choose a book to read from six categories. I’ve now completed the challenge and these are...
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Time’s Echo by Pamela Hartshorne
As I wrote in a First Chapter post Time’s Echo mixes time as Grace Trewe is drawn into Hawise Aske’s life, four and a half centuries earlier in York, 1577. I saw this book in the library and although...
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has been on my shelves for a few years and as I’m taking part in the Once Upon a Time event hosted by Carl at Stainless Steel Droppings I decided it was time I read it. It’s...
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Dreamwalker: The Ballad of Sir Benfro Book 1
I read Dreamwalker: The Ballad of Sir Benfro by James Oswald on my Kindle. It has since been published by Penguin as Dreamwalker by J D Oswald. So far there are three books in the series and there...
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The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
I had little idea what to expect before I began reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel The Buried Giant, except, that is, that I had enjoyed the other three books by him that I’ve read. They are The...
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Slade House by David Mitchell
I was in the middle of reading two books on my Kindle, Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope and SPQR: a History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard, when the battery died and I know I could still have continued...
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Adding to the TBRs
As usual I am behind with writing about the books I’ve read, with four to do. I’m in the middle of writing about The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf, but it is taking me longer than I’d hoped and I...
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Natasha Pulley’s first novel made a great impact on me from the start of the book. It is one of those books that I enjoyed very much, but don’t feel that I can really...
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A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin
“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.” When we began watching the HBO TV series, A Game of Thrones, I was hooked and once we finished watching I immediately...
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Books Read in August 2016
I read 6 books this August, three of them TBR books, and all are fiction, a mix of crime fiction, historical fiction and epic fantasy novels. One book is a library book and one a review copy. (The...
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The Phantom Tree by Nicola Cornick
Last year I loved Nicola Cornick’s time-slip novel, House of Shadows. Her latest book is The Phantom Tree, due to be published on 29 December, another time-slip novel and I loved this one too. Blurb:...
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Yesterday by Felicia Yap
Blurb: There are two types of people in the world. Those who can only remember yesterday, and those who can also recall the day before. You have just one lifeline to the past: your diary. Each night,...
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The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
Do you remember when you believed in magic? Publication date 8 February 2018, Penguin Random House UK, Ebury Publishing Review copy from the publishers, via NetGalley My rating: 5 stars Blurb: It is...
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