Reviews 

I love Patrick Gale, but struggled initially with this. The plot is very linear with few of the surprising plot twists that one expects....

A retelling of ‘The Iliad’ from a woman’s perspective, so the central figure is Breisis (I think), a Trojan princess captured by the...

3rd purchase from Smith’s at Gatwick, her new book which Paddy devoured before I did! Not as good as many of her books, a bit...

A very slight novelette, written as a film script when Greene was contracted to Hollywood post war as he couldn’t fund life from writing....

A present from JG, as a bonus on top of the book (also by Mankell) that he lost and replaced. A short and slight book about a young girl...

As it is a library book, due back 5 September, I thought worth another read. It is actually quite an old fashioned novel, reminded me at...

Took me all week to read this, because I began the week trying to read 'Mary Barton' by Mrs. Gaskell. I seem to have had a fall out with...

Described as a novel, this is really five short stories, with obscure (if at all) thematic interlinkings. The best was the last one, but...