BOOKPHACE

A varied month but with a bias towards historical fiction, I guess. That wasn't planned, it's just the way it worked out! The month ...

  Great excitement in our town in December as a new independent bookshop opened. We had been without one for some years. The previous one wa...

Since December our town has had an indepedent book shop.   The previous one closed down a few months before the pandemic and as a book lover...

This book seemed to garner quite a bit of attention on social media. And I'm never sure whether such books are worthy of the attention o...

  I read Stacey Hall’s first book, The Familiars, and loved it. I made a mental note to keep an eye open for her future work. I'm ashame...

A Mystic Orchard whose word trees bear the most exquisite and ripe fruits. A crop that explores the berries of family, the hips of trauma, t...

  Sarah Pearse – The Retreat I read The Sanatorium and thoroughly enjoyed it so I was interested to read the follow up. I enjoyed that, too,...