Gordon D'Venables – Robin's Room

Week beginning May 7, 2025.

Dervla McTiernan The Unquiet Grave Book 4 of The Cormac Reilly Series HarperCollins Publishers Australia | HarperCollins AU, April 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Dervla McTiernan returns to Ireland and Cormac Reilly, creating a deftly woven seemingly multitude of ideas, crimes, and personal relationships in The Unquiet Grave. TheContinue reading “Week beginning May 7, 2025.”

Week beginning 16 April 2025

Scott Turow Presumed Guilty Swift Press, February 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is not ‘just’ a legal procedural, although under Scott Turow’s experienced hand that would be enough. Presumed Guilty is an empathetic analysis of relationships and ageing as well as an insightful consideration of racismContinue reading “Week beginning 16 April 2025”

Week beginning 19 April 2023

NetGalley provided me with the following uncorrected proofs for review. The first, The Women Who Wouldn’t Leave, is a good read. Unfortunately, the other two books are extremely disappointing. Miranda Rijks’ The Other Mother follows others I have read by this author. They have been fairly good beach reads, and for GoodReads I have ratedContinue reading “Week beginning 19 April 2023”

Week beginning 19 October 2022

This week the books to be reviewed are Peter J. Leithart’s Jane Austen A Literary Celebrity and Marple: Twelve New Stories by Agatha Christie; Naomi Alderman; Leigh Bardugo; Alyssa Cole; Lucy Foley; Elly Griffiths; Natalie Haynes; Jean Kwok; Val McDermid; Karen M. McManus; Dreda Say Mitchell; Kate Mosse; Ruth Ware, HarperCollins Sep 2022. Both wereContinue reading “Week beginning 19 October 2022”

Week beginning 20th January

Spending a week in Perth was a pleasant reminder of the tremendous effort that Australians, in the main, are putting into keeping Australia as Covid 19 free as possible. Masks are now mandatory in the Canberra and Perth airports, and on Qantas flights, unless eating or drinking. An interesting observation in the city of PerthContinue reading “Week beginning 20th January”