Review Catch-up: Austen, Dabos, Simenon & Steeds

Shorter reviews today so I can close out my pile of books read in 2025 finally! (I got ChatGPT to design my header pic – pretty good huh?) Persuasion by Jane Austen This was our bookgroup’s Christmas Classic read – our celebration of Austen’s 250th anniversary too. All bar one of us really enjoyed it, Read More

Two novels with a French connection – Chevalier & Magnan

The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier This was our Book Group’s choice for this month – ‘Blue’ being the key word we’d picked it by.  This was Chevalier’s first novel, published in 1997, and it is different to all of her others by having a dual timeline, following the stories of two women, centuries apart. Read More