📖 Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #11) ⭐⭐⭐

If you are a regular reader, you will know that I have been working my way through Terry Pratchett’s epic Discworld series: reading the books we already own or as we get our hands on them. Recently, my dad picked up a copy of Guards! Guards!, the eighth instalment in Pratchett’s fantastical Discworld series, but …

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📖 The Tudor Crown by Joanna Hickson ⭐⭐

I absolutely loved Joanna Hickson's brilliant First of the Tudors, about the often neglected Jasper Tudor, but I was left wanting more! So I have been looking forward to this second historical fiction, The Tudor Crown by Joanna Hickson, which continues the same story from the point-of-view of Jasper's nephew, Henry Tudor. In September 1471, we …

Re-Read: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

I rounded off a wonderful month of reading in March with Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, which completed my planned re-read of Collins’ highly successful, young adult dystopian trilogy, The Hunger Games. That spawned an equally successful film franchise. After enjoying the films a lot, I was excited to remind myself of the extra details in …

📖 Little Men by Louisa May Alcott ⭐⭐

After quite a heavy first year (2018) into my new Classics Club list, with some long and/or difficult classics tackled, I thought I needed to go easier on myself this year by reading some more of the children's classics I have on my list. And, first up, I decided to read Little Men by Louisa May …

New Read: Origin

Knowing how much I had loved Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code and Inferno, my dad bought me a paperback copy of Origin by Dan Brown for Christmas. So excited was I to find out what Robert Langdon would possibly get up to next, I bumped this straight to the top of my to-be-read …

📖 Emma by Jane Austen (1815) ⭐⭐⭐

Back in November, last year, I took part in The Classics Club’s 19th Spin event, which chose Emma by Jane Austen for me. Having loved all of Austen's finished novels, I took the opportunity, when creating my new list for the club, to include them all for a re-read. I was thrilled with my result, …

📖 Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley ⭐⭐⭐

Back in January, I escaped the busyness of life and the dreary weather with Bellewether, the latest dual-narrative novel from, one of my favourite authors, Susanna Kearsley. Having previously read, and loved, six of her previous novels, I eagerly ripped through this anticipating a good dose of mystery, romance and history, and I wasn't to be …

New Read: Frenchman’s Creek

In 2018, I was lucky enough to read two of the gothic queen, Daphne du Maurier's novels. First, in June, I read the superb, time-travelling horror, The House on the Strand and then, at the end of the year, Frenchman’s Creek. Restless with the pomp, ritual and debauchery of London's Restoration Court, Lady Dona St Columb …

📖 The Dragon’s Blade: Veiled Intentions by Michael R. Miller (2017) ⭐⭐

At the beginning of last year, I enjoyed reading The Dragon's Blade: The Reborn King by Michael R. Miller as an escape from the bitterly cold and dreary weather of February. So, later in the year, when the cold weather returned in December, I reached for The Dragon’s Blade: Veiled Intentions, the second book in …

📖 The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan ⭐⭐

As a practicing Christian, I like to read Christian literature to help with the growth of my faith and I am very lucky that my church has it’s own book club to help me with this. Back in October we read and met to discuss The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri J.M. Nouwen. Next up was the classic, …