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Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women by Victoria Smith – Review
By Clare Jenkins Thirty years ago, way before LGBTQI+ politics became A Thing, I did an MA in Women’s Studies. ... -
The Black Spectacles by John Dickson Carr – Review
By Sarah Morgan Looking at the title of this novel, you might imagine that it features someone who wears Buddy ... -
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic by Seamus O’Mahoney – Review
By Barney Bardsley This account of the birth of psychoanalysis in the early 20th century is a rip-roaring page turner ... -
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld – Review
By Barney Bardsley Curtis Sittenfeld is a clever and appealing writer, who achieved well-deserved acclaim for her fictionalised account of ... -
The Redemption of Isobel Farrar by Alan Robert Clark – Review
By Sandra Callard Set in 1926, this tight-paced and always interesting novel focuses on Isobel Farrar, a rich, elderly but ... -
The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon – Review
By Sandra Callard This tightly written thriller could be based anywhere – which is all to the good as the ... -
Remarkable Cricket Grounds by Brian Levison – Review
By Dominic Picksley There was a time when I would don my whites and stand in a field for a ... -
Scotland 42 England 1 by Mark Winter – Review
By Karl Hornsey As someone who completed a ‘Road to Wembley’ journey several years ago with a great friend of ... -
Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater – Review
By Sandra Callard This original and obsessively good new novel revolves mainly around two young women who work as booksellers ... -
Second City by Richard Vinen – Review
By Clare Jenkins The theatre critic Kenneth Tynan once described his home town of Birmingham as “the ugliest city in ... -
Death of an Author by E.C.R Lorac – Review
By Sarah Morgan As every crime fiction-loving reader knows, many authors have their own detective, a familiar presence, usually with ... -
Next To Nature: A Lifetime In The English Countryside by Ronald Blythe – Review
By Elizabeth Stanforth-Sharpe Ronald Blythe died on January 14th, 2023, just two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. Blythe, the ...
