REVIEW: ‘The Bookshop’ by Penelope Fitzgerald

I would love to run a bookshop. By which I mean I would love to live in one, arranging the books just so, dipping in and out of my favourite tomes, discovering new authors and titles as part of my job – what bliss it all seems! But of course, the reality would be rather […]

January 8, 2019 Book Reviews, Fiction Read More →

‘The Outcast’: a dark tale of feeling unloved

I had never heard of this book until it was selected as a book group read. The plaudits on the back cover suggested it was written in a similar style to ‘Atonement’ so, having loved that book, I was keen to read this. The premise Under the neat façade of the church-going, lunch-attending 1950s middle […]

October 24, 2011 Book Reviews, Fiction Read More →