In 1942, Bethnal Green library in London was destroyed by a German bomb. The head librarian is killed and so children's librarian Clar...

  LIke many of us I am a sucker for a book about books. As soon as I saw this title I knew I needed to read it, particularly given that I kn...

  Tara and Jed are taking it slowly. Tara has emotional scars from her past that have forced her to keep her distance from everyone for year...

Michelle finally has the life that she wants. A couple of years earlier she had moved to Cornwall to a place that she loved, she had made so...

  When we visited Scotland a couple of years ago, we visited the border town of Jedburgh on our way to Hadrian's Wall. We wandered throu...

  \ It never ceases to amaze me how many little known stories there are about the events in WWII that are still being told in new stories. T...

When sisters Addie and Susanna receive an invitation to their aunt's funeral, it isn't a done deal that they would attend. Gayle mig...

 Last year my stated goal was that I wanted to read all the historical fiction I read and all the Australian authors I read. I did pretty we...

  Years ago I read Helen Simonson's debut novel Major Pettigrew's Last Stand ( reviewed here ) but it was only earlier this year tha...

  Happy release day to Sue Heath for her new novel The Storytellers! Last year I read and loved Sue Heath's novel The Secret Ingredient....

  Natalie Fisher has taken over the running of her family's herb farm. Whilst that keeps her busy Tallie is also at her mother's bec...

  Nadine the pig is back! Wait .... maybe I should have started with the gang from  Middleton Ferris is back, not just the pig! We first met...

  Sarah has been summoned back to her godmother Cordelia's house in Norfolk. It is a former convent that was turned into a house known a...

  Violet is pretty happy with her life. She has a job in publishing children's books and she and her boyfriend Lenny are pretty happy. Y...