The Pigeon Pie Mystery by Julia Stuart

This light-hearted historical mystery is humorous and fun and set in Hampton Court Palace.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Find out what I thought of the Gothic Jane Eyre in October.

Reading Update – 24/10/21

See what I've been reading and what's next.

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Set in the town of Hollingford in the South of England in the 1820's and 30's this is the story of several county families centering on Molly Gibson, a 17-year-old girl. Molly is close to her father, the local doctor and is distraught when her father remarries. It's only been Molly and her father for …

The Newcomes Vol. 1 by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Newcomes is a novel in two volumes originally published in 1855. Mostly set in London it concerns the affairs of the Newcome family: two banking brothers, Brian and Hobson, and their families, and their wayward solider brother, the Colonel, returned to England from India to spend time with his teenage son, Clive. The novel …

Reading Update – 17/12/20

Christmas time is upon us. I'm now nearing the end of the first volume of The Newcomes by W. M. Thackeray, a novel set mostly in England in the 1830's and 40's. The Newcomes centres on a family of three brothers and their spouses and children. There's a Colonel serving in India who comes to …