Among my Christmas gifts, I found North Woods by Daniel Mason. The blurb promised a journey through American history via…
Readers of The Herbalist’s Daughters (the standalone book 2 in The Wise Women series), might remember that one of the…
I’ve read many of Faulk’s books over decades and always loved them for their gentle, insightful humanity and a good…
At some 700 pages, The Schimmering is not a quick read. But I happily picked up this book during my…
As a fan of Alex Banwell’s Just Benny series, I was intrigued to read this novella exploring the background of…
A bone a heart the law a promise – which of these was broken? was penned in response to a…
The wall came tumbling down was penned over ten minutes at a writing workshop – don’t judge me! It was…
‘That old sofa? You want to keep it?’My son shook his head, bemused. ‘It’s worn through. Look.’ He strode across…
My first book of hers, and the thing I most enjoyed was the atmospheric writing which built this half-real half-imagined…
A scene from River Witch that in the end didn’t make the cut. It was definitely one of those ‘killing…