Category Archives: Book Review Of The Week

Miss Austen by Gill Hornby Buy Miss Austen from your local Bookseller: The Sunday Times bestseller, and set to be a major TV drama ‘You can’t help feeling that Jane would have approved.’ OBSERVER ‘So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining – I adored it.’ CLAIRE TOMALIN  Already a Sunday Times bestseller, Miss Austen, is a beautifully craftedContinue reading “Book Reviews of the Week: 03.06.20”

Here are our picks for Books for the Week. They were published either just before or during lockdown and they are all highly recommended. Imogen edwards-jones The Portrait Ilaria Bernardini A gripping story of love, death, art and deceit, which is also strange, beautiful and deeply original. The Portrait is unlike anything else I’ve read. Sofka Zinovieff,Continue reading “Book Reviews of the Week 25.05.20”

Here are our picks for Books for the Week. They were published either just before or during lockdown and they are all highly recommended. Imogen edwards-jones The Carer Deborah Moggach The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller “Moggach is at the height of her powers with this book, which moves from a beautifully observed comedy of middle-class life toContinue reading “Book Reviews of the Week 18.05.20”

Here are our picks for Books for the Week. They were published either just before or during lockdown and they are all highly recommended. Imogen edwards-jones Hex  Rebecca Dinerstein Knight ‘Reads like a botanist’s cross-breeding of The Secret History and Department of Speculation’  Emma Straub Rebecca Dinnersteon Knight’s second novel, Hex is a highly charged, spellbinding take onContinue reading “Book Reviews of the Week 11.05.20”

Lost Dog by Kate Spicer “It’s grown-up, intelligent and marbled throughout with a wit that is, appropriately, dry as a bone.” Literary Review A Sunday Times top ten bestseller in hardback last year, Spicer’s Lost Dog (now out in paperback) is a sassy smart tale of a Notting Hill girl who seems to have theContinue reading “Book Reviews of the Week: 06.05.20”

Here are our picks for Books for the Week. They were published either just before or during lockdown and they are all highly recommended. Imogen edwards-jones A Theatre for Dreamers  Polly Samson “Hands Down the best book I’ve read all year. Luminous, immersive, gorgeous, profound. I feckin’ love it!” Joanne Harris Set in 1960s onContinue reading “Books of the Week 27.04.20”