I have read one other Josephine Tey book (The Franchise Affair) and very much enjoyed it and loved her writing style so I was very pleased when I saw this one for sale in a bookshop. I did enjoy it, however it was very different from The Franchise Affair and I found it less gripping. [...]
This is the story of Mr March, the father of the girls from Little Women (Louisa May Alcott’s book). In Little Women he goes away to fight in the American Civil War, and this book details his experiences there.
I was keen to read this book because I have never read any Perry Mason books and the title just sounds so intriguing, and also it was a Penguin Classics book and the cover of these alone I find enticing! Perry Mason is asked, by Edna Hammer, the niece, to defend Peter Kent who is [...]
I was extremely excited to learn that this was actually a real book, as I’d first heard it mentioned in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey when one of her characters was reading it and had just presumed that it was a made-up title. Ever since I’d learnt it actually existed, I had been determined to read [...]
01 Jan
Posted by Jo as Book Reviews
I was very keen to read this book; the cover alone intrigued me looking, as it does, like a historic newspaper article. It is a fascinating subject for a book; a real life crime committed in Victorian times that has always horrified and puzzled the public, and even by the end of this book there [...]
I was quite intrigued to read this book as it is so associated with scandal and Wilde’s imprisonment; I was interested to see if the book was as graphic as I was led to believe or whether it was exaggerated, and also if such an infamous book would seem as shocking today as it did [...]
This is a beautiful piece of work that is very touching and charming, and even quite humbling, without being sickly sweet in any way. I very much enjoyed it. It is a journal written by an elderly father for his young son who he fears will not remember him clearly when he has died. I [...]
I did struggle with this book, mostly due to the language it uses which is seafaring language; a mix between Indian and English (I think) presumably to enable the different nationalities onboard the ships of that time to be able to communicate. I thought I might have to give up with the book initially but [...]
I very much enjoyed this book; it was a very satisfying length first of all, one you could really get involved and immersed in. I enjoyed Kate’s first book, The House of Riverton, and was eagerly awaiting her second and I wasn’t disappointed. Like The House of Riverton, this book covers several different times, telling [...]
This novel is set in 1850s Yorkshire in the times of the woollen mill trade. The reader follows Lally Fraser throughout a turbulent time in her life; becoming a young widow, being confused about love, learning how to run her estate and the family’s woollen mills, and finally falling in love.