Still trying to reduce my books to be reviewed pile, here are two more shorter reviews for you. All that Remains by Virginie Grimaldi, translated by Hildegarde Serle Knowing that I’ve enjoyed Valérie Perrin’s novels (see here and here), I was delighted to receive a copy of another French bestseller, also translated by Hildegarde Serle, Read More
Tag: Shooting
My Rude Awakening by E C Featherstone
It’s hard to know where to start with this memoir! I’ll be totally up front – I wasn’t sure it was a book for me. The cover suggests a polo-playing toff who pursues a woman and flies helicopters in the RAF. Now I’m not averse to a bit of Jilly Cooper and well-done smut, nor Read More
Is this how others view Little England…
English Animals by Laura Kaye Reading this sparkling debut, in which Mirka, a young Slovakian woman, finds herself working for an English couple in the depths of the countryside, I couldn’t help thinking of what it was like to listen to The Archers for the first time. All those posh folk going on about pheasant Read More
