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The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides, is a fabulously twisty thriller that sent chills running down my spine and had me muttering more than one ‘Phwoar!’.I absolutely loved this story. I’d put it in the same category as Ghosted, by …

The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers

by Kerri Turner

The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers, by Kerri Turner, is a wonderful and thoroughly enjoyable story to read.I’m a sucker for anything set in Russia. I devoured Paullina Simons’ The Bronze Horseman series, with Tatiana and Alexander an…

Once Upon a River

by Diane Setterfield

I absolutely adored Once Upon a River. Diane Setterfield can really spin a yarn – what an incredible gift for understated storytelling. Reading this book felt just as though I was sitting by the fire with an ale in the dead of winter, hu…

North

by Frank Owen

I was intrigued by the cover claim on North – that it’s a post-apocalyptic game changer. That’s a pretty big call in this genre. Not a lot changes, really. There’s an apocalypse, and then people have to survive afterwards. Normally there…

The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton

by Anstey Harris

On finishing The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton I dearly wanted to stand up and shout, ‘Bravo! Bra-vooo!’, clap wildly and whistle as though I were at an orchestral concert.But I would have woken up everyone in my house. So I se…

Unfettered and Alive

by Anne Summers

Anne Summers tells incredibly compelling stories and she’s lived such a full and fascinating life, there are plenty of stories to tell. So I was very excited to see a copy of her latest memoir (it’s not her first) show up in my mailbox a…

Book of Colours

by Robyn Cadwallader

To me, Book of Colours is a novel about art and artists. The process of creating art, what goes on in the head of an artisan, and how do they reconcile artistic independence with the need to eat and pay rent?This is very much a literar…

The Absolved

by Matthew Binder

An absolutely fascinating and enjoyable read. The Absolved has all the ingredients you’d expect of a future dystopia – increased automation, record high temperatures, almost non existent rainfall forcing use of desalination plants, which…

The Killing of Louisa

by Janet Lee

The Killing of Louisa gives a compelling voice to a woman who had none. Of course, most of Louisa’s life story itself is pure imagination on Lee’s part, though it makes for fascinating and vivid reading.Lee draws Louisa Collins as an a…