The life of Frances Hodgson Burnett
The eventful life of a children’s author
2022 – “All the Seas of the World” by Guy Gavriel Kay
A fantasy set among traders, ships and kings
2021 – “The Women of Troy” by Pat Barker
A retelling of an old story from a new viewpoint
A favourite series draws to a close
A skeleton is traced to a student archeological dig
2020 – “The Goodbye Man” by Jeffery Deaver
A suspense thriller
2019 – “My Sister, the Serial Killer” by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Two sisters - many murders
2018 – “Normal People” by Sally Rooney
Two young Irish people have a troubled relationship
2017 – “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine” by Gail Honeyman
Eeanor thinks she is fine but maybe she is not
Serving justice forty years later
The Ticket Collector from Belarus by Mike Anderson tells the story of Britain’s only war crimes trial which took place in 1999. The defendant in the trial was Andrei Sawoniuk who had immigrated to the UK after WW2 and spent his life working on the railways until his retirement. He was a racist, bad tempered, … Continue reading Serving justice forty years later
2016 – “The Buried Giant” by Kazuo Ishiguro
A fable about memory
