I was looking forward to reading The Improbability of Love. It came highly recommended by a friend who couldn’t put it down and described it

I was asked to review the this novel by the publisher because I wrote a very favourable review here for Apple Tree Yard. My Husband’s Son be

For my 60th birthday I took my closest family — those who were able to travel abroad— away for the weekend. I wanted to visit the...

We get to know Evie as a young girl growing up in the 70s. The granddaughter of a TV star. Sharpened by cynicism and suffering from a...

Being totally unenamoured with mainstream television I am always on the lookout for entertainment in other areas. A short while ago I...

Most years I love the winner of the Bailey’s. Not the drinking competition, I mean the novel that wins the literary prize. And not the...

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon is a lovely quirky novel, told predominantly through the eyes of a 10 year old girl,...

I’m not sure why I felt compelled to be a volunteer for Crisis over Christmas, especially when the charity said they were not interested...

Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty Recommended by Danny at WEL Books I haven’t read many books this year that I haven’t wanted to put...

‘Utopia is no place, it doesn’t exist; it never did and it never will.’ Douglas Murray contemporary journalist and commentator on...

The last six months has been the anticipatory period between Kate Bush announcing her residency at the Hammersmith Apollo and the first...