And once again my list is not very long, but it truly represents the best and most memorable for me books that I reviewed this year. 1. The Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman. I am linking to the review of the first book, but I reviewed all three books ... more >
Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make ... more >
In 1715, Lady Blythe Hedley’s father is declared an enemy of the British crown because of his Jacobite sympathies, forcing her to flee her home in northern England. Secreted to the tower of Wedderburn Castle in Scotland, Lady Blythe awaits who will ultimately be crowned king. But in a house ... more >
Secrets and lies threaten to pull them under, but a forced marriage may be their salvation. Gideon Kendrick grew up as the despised bastard son of the Duke of Glenmoor. Exiled to the mines by his father, he has not only survived but thrived and prospered. He lives apart, wanting ... more >
200,000 Snakes On the Hunt in Manitoba: or, How I Found a New Beginning at the Bottom of a Giant Pit of Snakes by Pat Spain Pat Spain was living the life he had always dreamed of. He had just finished filming his first National Geographic TV series Beast Hunter, ... more >
In Beijing, Li Bing continues his quest to enter the imperial civil service. Dear Mr. Campbell, Well, that’s a rather uninspired blurb that barely covers a third of what goes on in this book. It’s an important third but still, much more happens in this story than that. Threads that ... more >