The thing about tropes is…sometimes they work for us. The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy […]
A Death Along the River Fleet, by Susanna Calkins
Lucy Campion is a very lucky girl for her day and age. Less than a […]
How to Be a Tudor, by Ruth Goodman
A few of my friends and I have been waiting impatiently for How to Be a […]
A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson
Reading Life After Life was such an odd and wonderful experience that I was curious about […]
The Madwoman Upstairs, by Catherine Lowell
Life must be hard for the children and descendents of the famous. They have their […]
The Unforgotten, by Laura Powell
Most mysteries focus on the detective or the criminal and reveal who done it, why […]
The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins, by Antonia Hodgson
One would think that his experiences in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison (chronicled in The Devil in […]
A Man Lies Dreaming, by Lavie Tidhar
Perhaps it’s fitting that I read Hannah Tennant-Moore’ essay in The Paris Review about the merits of […]
Noonday, by Pat Barker
The iconic phrase from London’s Blitz was “Keep Calm and Carry On.” The media of […]
Tightrope, by Simon Mawer
We called World War I the war to end all wars. World War II claimed […]