‘One summer.A trip that will change everything.’ – The Summer Villa Hello folks!! I went off the radar there for a week or so as we went on a very unscheduled break to Co. Kerry, which was just FANTASTIC. Back now with lots more exciting books to read and also to share my thoughts with…
In 1937, courageous and independent Martha Gellhorn travels to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War… – Love & Ruin [ About Love & Ruin ] In 1937, courageous and independent Martha Gellhorn travels to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, and finds herself drawn to…
‘I wish…’ she began, and came to a halt. She wished so much. She wished he was different. She wished their story was different…She wished they loved one another, and depended on one another, and missed each other when they were apart’ – The Birthday Party [ About the Book ] Another summer is in…
A Nail, A Rose is a collection of ‘sharp, elegant stories of women’s inner lives by the rediscovered Belgian author Madeleine Bourdouxhe‘ [ About the Book ] These are stories of longing and dissatisfaction, of daily life ruptured by strange currents of feeling. A woman, wandering alone and heartbroken, is first attacked and then romantically…
She knows she’s not like most women.Fortunately, he’s not like most men. [ About the Book ] Thomasina ‘Hitch’ Waycott loves living and working on the remote family farm and B&B. But she also wants more. To see the world. To own her own home. To fall madly in love. But those are fairy tales,…
Danger is just a ‘like’ away…Some followers are fatal…–The Closer I Get [ About the Book ] Tom is a successful author, but he’s struggling to finish his novel. His main distraction is an online admirer, Evie, who simply won’t leave him alone.Evie is smart, well read and unstable; she lives with her father and…
‘Where to begin? Too many thoughts to put down. But if I don’t, they’ll spend what’s left of the night partying in my cerebral cortex and sleep will be even more impossible’ [ About the Book ] Neuroscientist Bea Hudson fears she is a bad mother and that her career will be thwarted by family…
‘Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond sit on a bench just a few yards west of the hatch. They are in their low fifties. The years are rolling out like the tide now. There is old weather on their faces, on the hard lines of their jaws, on their chaotic mouths. But they retain – just…
They told him everything…He told everybody else. [ About the Book ] Over countless martini-soaked Manhattan lunches, they shared their deepest secrets and greatest fears. On exclusive yachts sailing the Mediterranean, on private jets streaming towards Jamaica, on Yucatán beaches in secluded bays, they gossiped about sex, power, money, love and fame. They never imagined…
Set at the Bauhaus art school in pre-war Germany…An intoxicating story of young friendships and fledgling loves in a heady and enticing world set against the backdrop of a precarious Europe. [ About the Book ] In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the charismatic teaching…