The Amber Shadows by Lucy Ribchester – Published by Simon & Schuster in 2016 It’s 1942 and Honey Deschamps is a so-called typist in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park. One night she bumps...
The Night Manager by John Le Carré – Published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1991 and by Penguin (with Afterword by the author), 2016 No prizes for guessing why I decided to re-read this...
Iris Grace by Arabella Carter-Johnson – Published by Penguin, 2016 Iris Grace was born in 2009. She was eventually diagnosed as having severe autism. He parents tried many things to try to include...
A Gardener’s Latin (The Language of Plants Explained) by Richard Bird – Published by National Trust books This book is a lot more user-friendly than you might imagine from the title. Once you...
The Extraordinary life of Frank Derrick, age 81 – By J.B. Morrison – Published by Pan in 2014 From the blurb on the cover I expected something along the lines of the wonderfully quirky...
The Big Christmas Rescue by Rory Stamp, illustrated by Hannah Cumming (A personalised adventure book available from and sold in aid of the RNLI) If shops can open their Christmas departments in...
Doodling For Cat People by Gemma Correll Published by Walter Foster, 2015 Part colouring book, part guide to drawing, part notebook, part life story (mine by the sound of it, although I’ve...
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman Translated by Henning Koch – Published by Sceptre Hodder & Stoughton, Jun 2015 From the author of ‘A Man Called Ove’ and recognisably...
Murder, She Wrote: The Ghost and Mrs Fletcher by Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain and Renee Paley-Bain – Published by Penguin Random House, Oct 2015 If you’ve watched the TV series ‘Murder, She Wrote’,...
Heroes of the Coffee Rota by Dave Walker – Published by Canterbury Press, June 2015 Described as a book for “everyone who keeps the church going. Those who lead, arrange, preach, attend,...