Creative storytelling and narrative journeys that explore life through the lens of the imagination.
I’m reading ‘The Good People‘, the second novel by Hannah Kent, and already liking Nance Roche. Nance reminds me of my late great-grandmother, Tai Bou, who like Nance had ‘the gift’. Like Nance, Tai Bou was also a dispenser of herbs and tonics gathered, grounded, or steeped from her garden or from the wild places […]
Is Elizabeth George really the next Agatha Christie? My review of ‘Payment in Blood’ dives into the mystery soup of DI Lynley, DS Havers, and unnecessary clutter.
This book left me nostalgic for an age of innocence, a time when romance books were romantic. A time so far removed from the filth that now passes for ‘romance’ in contemporary fiction. Ripples in the Lake is a throwback to a time when Mills & Boon romances were peopled with virtuous heroines and arrogant
This was Tudor’s debut novel, and she’s gone on to write a few more. She’s been compared to Stephen King. In The Chalk Man, Tudor very carefully mentions Harlan Coben as the writer the narrator is reading, and I think she wanted to make that connection in the reader’s mind. The Chalk Man by C.J.
If there’s one book I would never recommend you read, this is it.
Based on the shocking true story of the witch hunt of Pittenweem, this multi-layered novel is a beautifully written historical tale of the strength of women united against a common foe, by one of Australia’s finest writers.