Staircase Wit

I was sorry to read of the death of Sir Patrick Stewart on Thursday. Although I never met him, we had a memorable missed connection – at le...

Race of Scorpions , the third book in the House of Niccolo series, begins in Northern Italy as Nicholas vander Poele travels aimlessly throu...

Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl . This week is a Halloween Freebie, so I de...

I spent quite a bit of September reading two fairly long books, Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett and This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by ...

Charlotte Drummond is barely 17 when her grandfather dies, and because the estate is entailed and thus goes to a male heir, she and her moth...

My final book for the 1949 Club is a beautifully written, whimsical, historical novel by Elizabeth Goudge (1900-84), a bestselling writer in...

In the 15th Miss Silver book, she just happens to be staying with a school friend when a murder takes place. Does she have precognition? I...

The Melburys – Bill, Susan, and their mother – have been living in a crowded London flat until Mrs. Melbury’s Cousin Fay dies and unexpected...