The Complete Farseer Trilogy: Assassin’s Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin’s Quest – Robin Hobb – 08.01.26
Apart from the Game of Thrones (song of ice and fire) books, I haven’t really read much world building type fantasy since I was a young adult (so a LONG time ago, ha ha!) but my son, Christy asked me if I had read anything by this author, because he thought I would like it,…
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier (BOOKGROUP)– 13.01.26
This was my book group read for January and we decided to do a classic once again and as is often the case realised why this book is a classic as we all agreed that the writing is sublime. Rebecca, though daring for its time is quite dated to our modern eyes in attitudes towards…
The Everlasting – Alix E. Harrow (AUDIOBOOK) Narrated by: Moira Quirk, Sid Sagar – 06.01.26
This is a clever and beautiful book which, I think transcends genre. It is set in a world similar but not the same as our world around the time of the second world war. The main character is a historian who seems to have an affinity for an ancient language he never learned and a…
A Single Thread – Tracy Chevalier (Audiobook) Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar – 15.12.25
This is a gentle and evocative novel set in the 1930s. A coming of age of sorts, although the protagonist is 39 at the beginning of the book – it is more a birthing and childhood of an era – post war, with so many young men killed, that women have had to take up…
The Stuff of Thought – Steven Pinker (Audiobook) Narrated by: John Chancer – 05.12.25
Continuing with my new found appreciation of non-fiction books (more so with audiobooks I think – I still find reading non-fiction on kindle to be quite boring) I listened to this book about language and how the evolution of language across different language groups and cultures can tell us about the evolution of human thought…
The Long Shoe – Bob Mortimer (Audiobook) Narrated by: Bob Mortimer, Diane Morgan, Arabella Weir – 17.11.25
I continue to very much enjoy listening to Bob Mortimer’s audiobooks – his stories are funny while also poignant and edge of your seat thrilling, with twists and turns enough to keep you guessing. I would encourage people to read the books in order (starting with The Satsuma Complex) as the characters are going on…
The Winter Ghosts – Kate Mosse (BOOKGROUP) – 15.11.25
This was my book group read for December and I have copied and pasted the review I wrote from the ‘My Book Group Reads’ page of my website: The girls all liked the book and found it easy to read in style but also thought provoking and raised deep issues. Set after the first world…
Out of Time: The Time Police, Book 6 – Jodi Taylor (Audiobook) Narrated by: Zara Ramm. – 12.11.25
Another fun romp from the pen of Jodi Taylor (or the computer I guess these days?!). With dinosaurs roaming around Wales, a dark secret from the Time Polices past and another foray into the mystery of the disappearing princes from the Tower of London – as usual this was a gripping, moving, laugh-inducing and satisfying…
Once Was Willem – M. R. Carey – 10.11.25
I’m a big fan of M.R. Carey, who I discovered first by reading The Girl With All the Gifts (fabulous zombie book) and I went on to read almost all of his books so far – I love the mix of genre’s from horror, sci-fi, supernatural thriller and this one which I would say is…
The Rose Field – The Book of Dust Volume Three – Philip Pullman – 05.11.25
Oh my goodness, where to start… **SPOILERS** I don’t remember there being a book that I anticipated with such eagerness – constantly searching for years to see if there is a release date, and then practically counting the days to publication when there finally was. I have followed Lyra Belacqua (or silvertongue) through all the…
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