Following on from the late E F Benson’s highly popular Mapp and Lucia series of novels, this book by Guy Fraser-Sampson (author of Major Benjy) transports key members of Tilling society to...

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No! by Marta Altes – Published by Child’s Play (International) Ltd, 2011 No! is a dog. Thoughtful and helpful, he knows how much his family love him – they demonstrate it every...

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Tuesday’s Gone by Nicci French – Published in paperback by Penguin, on 17 January 2013 The second book in the series featuring Psychotherapist Frieda Klein. A follow up to Blue Monday#, the...

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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan – Published in hardback by Particular Books, November 2012 Brain on Fire is the author’s first book. It is the real-life story...

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The Love Child by Amanda Brookfield (Published in paperback by Penguin, on 17 January 2013) As regular readers of my column will know, I’m not a fan of women’s contemporary fiction, so...

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The Alternate-Day Diet by James B Johnson and Donald R Laub Sr (Published in paperback by Michael Joseph/Penguin on 3 January 2013) A timely book for many of us, subtitled “Diet only...

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As the blurb says, “if you’ve been experiencing an inexplicable longing for rain, long dark nights, and an overwhelming urge to pull on a slightly itchy looking jumper then you have Forbrydelsen...

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Mog’s Christmas by Judith Kerr – Published by Harper Collins Children’s Books; reissued to celebrate Mog’s 40th anniversary in 2010 If you haven’t read any of Judith Kerr’s books for children, you’re...

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Eva takes to her bed. Fed up with cooking her husband’s dinner, caring for the house and mystified by her oddly introvert and super-intelligent 17 year old twins, Eva takes advantage of...

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