I have been waiting for Anna Freeman’s The Fair Fight to arrive at my library since […]
Emma, by Jane Austen
This month’s resolution read actually fit two categories. I’ve read Emma, by Jane Austen, before. I […]
The Solitary House, by Lynn Shepherd
Authors have to pick a character or a plot (or a few) to focus on […]
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
One of my long-standing New Year’s reading resolutions (if two years can be considered long-standing) […]
The Gallows Curse, by Karen Maitland
I have to describe The Gallows Curse, by Karen Maitland, as both historical fiction and historical […]
And Only to Deceive, by Tasha Alexander
After all the heavy books I’ve been reading lately, I felt the need to dip […]
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, by Natasha Pulley
What if there were no coincidences? This isn’t to say that everything happens because of […]
Motherland, by Jo McMillan
Eleanor Mitchell raised her daughter to believe in the international struggle for workers’ rights. She […]
The First of July, by Elizabeth Speller
The Battle of the Somme began on 1 July 1916 and continued for the next […]
The Odd Women, by George Gissing
The Odd WomenIt’s strange that an obscure book from 1893 should have so many things […]