Listen up.  If you read my review of The Dinner ( or you have read the book itself ), I am here to tell you THIS IS WHAT THE DINNER PROMISED TO BE! This is a corker.  It’s dark, funny, loving, weird, wonderful.  One reviewer described it a tale of an ‘un-airbrushed life’ and that […]

If ever there was a book that needs to be made into film this is it.  I’m picturing an expensive, ensemble cast on location off the Italian coast under the guidance of talented but subtle director with a fantastic sense of humour. So while the bidding rights for this book are being sorted out, all you need to do is pick up a […]

This book gave me nightmares so quite frankly, I wish I did not read it before going to sleep.  I think I am, four days later, still traumatized. Winner of UK Crime Thriller of the Year, this book delivers.  The feeling it left me with was that horrifying scene in When A Stranger Calls where the […]

This book should come with a warning – Will Need Kleenex!  Perhaps next print-run, consider a wee box of tissues as Gift with Purchase, Author? I spent the last wonderful chapter weeping until I hit a sobbing crescendo from page 345 onwards…..Boy-oh-Boy, what a great story.  There is a reason this book is on the […]

Some books you read on public transport and laugh out loud to the point people move away and think you are nuts.  This is not one of those books.  However, despite it’s complete lack of light moments it was still utterly beautiful to me. Hannah Kent described Burial Rites as her “dark love letter to Iceland” and I […]

I was gone at the get-go with this book. Get through page 1 and you are in.  Bang. There is a reason this book is so popular and on everyone’s must read list.  It is because it strikes the perfect balance between a clever, well thought out thriller with well developed characters and great research and a down […]