Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week the theme is Books I Enjoyed...

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

  It seems impossible to me that it has been more than 14 years since I read Helen Simonson's first book Major Pettigrew's Last Stan...

  In the summer of 1914, Grace Villiers, her brother William, his friend Bertie and his sister Winn come together at Egerton Hall to enjoy l...

  Olivia Davenport and her parents are due to travel on the inaugural sailing of RMS Titanic. However, the week before departure Olivia cont...

Right now we seem to be going through a golden age for historical fiction set during WWII. Now, I am still more than happy to read it, but I...

Do you have authors that you don't really worry too much about reading the blurb to see what the book is going to be about because you k...

Every now and again a book comes along which makes you really stop and think. This is one of those books. When a man is arrested for damagin...

Dolly Bowman arrives in Sydney from country New South Wales, with a promise of a cleaning job in a boarding house. Her father has died rec...

If you had of asked Margaret Dunn she would have sworn that she knew her mother Elspeth fairly well. Sure, she had questions about the iden...

This year the tenth book in the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear is being released. To celebrate, there is a month long blog t...

I really love split time narrative novels when they are done well, and this book certainly qualifies as one of those! The Girl You Left ...