"The story of me, and we, and us, and them. The story of then. And the story of now. How can the story of me exist without all of it?"

"The Girls" is a wonderful novel. For me, the best books take me somewhere...

Jacqueline Winspear is an interesting writer. She is an often-recommended author for readers of Alexandr McCall Smith. I suppose I understand the similarity to some extent - she too is a rather gentle author; but there's an innocence McCal...

The Janus Stone is Griffiths second Ruth Galloway novel - and just as satisfying as the first.

As Ruth herself muses, "[s:]he had thought that the danger was over and that she could live quietly for a while. But, somehow, da...

I loved these books when I was a kid. Unfortunately my mother was a religious nutcase, was convinced C.S. Lewis was in league with the devil (really, did she ever *read* them?!) and threw my entire Pauline Baynes' illustrated softcover boxe...

It started off in a promising new summery mystery series sort of way, then it was almost like Thomas got bored and had to sew the plot up higgledly-piggledly at the end... I hated the constant red-herrings about the murder - he did he didn'...