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REVIEW: The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton by Elizabeth Speller
After the debacle of Gertrude Stein’s Food – number 08 in the Penguin Modern Classics collection and the subject of yesterday’s blog – I desperately needed something that I was going to a) understand and b) enjoy. Step up Elizabeth Speller with The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton. Laurence Bartram is our protagonist in this…
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REVIEW: The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
When I looked through the list of what I had read last year there was a distinct lack of anything other than novels and so this year I am trying to include more poetry, plays and non-fiction in my reading matter. This comes into the last of those three categories and is just fascinating. Thomas…