What Katie Read

September 27, 2021

BOOK REVIEW: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell

In the middle of tending to the everyday business at…

September 3, 2021

BOOK REVIEW: The Praise Singer by Mary Renault

In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary…

September 1, 2021

Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad by Jacqueline L. Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard

In Hidden in Plain View, historian Jacqueline Tobin and scholar Raymond…

August 30, 2021

BOOK REVIEW: The Lantern Men by Elly Griffiths

Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She has a…

August 27, 2021

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is…

August 25, 2021

BOOK REVIEW: The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers by Kerri Turner

Valentina Yershova's position in the Romanov's Imperial Russian Ballet is…

August 17, 2021

BOOK REVIEW: Eurydice Street - A Place in Athens by Sofka Zinovieff

Sofka Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a…

August 13, 2021

BOOK REVIEW: The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault

In this sequel to The King Must Die Theseus defies…

August 9, 2021

BOOK REVIEW: Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Clare Hunter

In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the…

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