Three Little Birds – Sam Blake (AUDIOBOOK), Narrated by: Jessica Regan – 10.02.26
This is an Irish police procedural murder mystery with the main character being an expert in facial reconstruction and looking at cold cases. I liked it alright, but often found my attention drifting when listening to it, and ended up being a bit confused about who was who and what was going on. Couldn’t be…
The Complete Tawny Man Trilogy: Fool’s Errand, The Golden Fool, Fool’s Fate – Robin Hobb – 10.02.26
This third trilogy returns to Fitz’s life after some time has passed and he is a settled older man trying to raise his adopted son and live a peaceful life in a remote woodland location with his wolf, Nighteyes. All kinds of things prevent this quiet existence from continuing and Fitz is drawn back into…
The Society of Unknowable Objects – Gareth Brown (AUDIOBOOK) Narrated by: Olivia Vinall – 20.01.26
I loved The Book of Doors, by Gareth Brown, so I was very excited to read this (although disappointed that it wasn’t a hoped for sequel to the book of doors). The genre and style is this book is similar to the first – ordinary people finding themselves as guardians to magical artifacts that could…
The Complete Liveship Traders Trilogy: Ship of Magic, The Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny – Robin Hobb – 19.01.26
I was so in love with Fitz’s story in the Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb that this second trilogy in her world took me a while to get into since it is set in a different country with a whole new set of characters with different cultures and mythologies. The Liveship traders own ships made…
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…
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