An Australian author I enjoy

I have written previously about the debut novel of Sulari Gentill but since that time she has been prolific in her writings.  I have read A Few Right Thinking Men, A Decline in Prophets and Paving the New Road.  She has also written Miles Off Course but I haven’t read that one.  I am just about…

Falling down in my Historical Fiction Challenge

As I have been busy doing other things I haven’t read many books for my Historical Fiction Reading Challenge.  I have been reading crime fiction but I am now reading a historical fiction book for my challenge.  The book is Suite Française by Irene Némirovsky A wonderful book with so many interesting characters. From the cover:…

Now I will look at markings on sewing patterns in a different light.

You will need to read The Seamstress by Maria Duenas to find out why. I am fickle when it comes to choosing books.  This one was chosen purely on the front cover.  I love the art of Jack Vettriano who is Fife born.  Fife is the county in which I was born.  I should say…

Another Robert Harris novel. I have read a few of his books.

This is one of Harris’s earlier novels, published in 1992.  It was made into a film in 1994. Harris has written several historical fiction novels but this one is what they call alternate historical fiction or speculative fiction. It is also a murder/mystery thriller. I can say that I enjoyed this novel just as much…

The Amethysts not really a suitable book for Christmas.

Four amethyst statuettes form the core around which the atrocities in this book revolve.  The Amethysts by Frank Delaney. From the cover: Spring 1991: Nicholas Newman, 38, a fashionable and affluent English architect, takes a short holiday in a discreet Swiss hotel. He is still deep in confused mourning for his lover Madeleine, murdered with…