The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith. No. 3 in The Sunday Philosphy Club series, novel set in Edinburgh. A cosy novel that will entertain at many levels, beautifully bringing Edinburgh and the Scottish way of life to...
Terminal City by Linda Fairstein – a thriller set in New York. Terminal City is the sixteenth book in the Alexandra Cooper series by Linda Fairstein. I have to confess I have not read any of the other fifteen,...
The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook, novel set in Hamburg 1946. A novel that evokes the period just after WW2 when Germany was starting to pick up the pieces, under the aegis of the allied powers. Specifically this book is...
The Calligraphy of Dreams by Juan Marsé (translated by Nick Caistor) – a novel set in Barcelona. ‘The arsehole of the world’ is how the Rat Catcher (the father of Ringo, the main character of The Calligraphy of Dreams) describes...
Life Drawing by Robin Black, novel set in rural USA outside Philadelphia. Strands weave their way through the story including the discovery of old newspapers that feature young soldiers ready to go to war, all pictured in Gus and...
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