Staircase Wit

This historical novel, set in 1952, begins dramatically with a dead or nearly dead body. Honor Wilson, a seemingly respectable widow, inher...

Two books stood out for me in May: Lady Tremaine , a retelling of Cinderella, which read more like historical fiction than fantasy (probably...

Alas, A Murder in Marylebone barely mentions Marylebone and is too obviously written by an American, although it began promisingly. Minerv...

The villagers do not know what to make of Muffler, a foundling named after the white scarf he was wrapped in when discovered in a hen’s nest...

It takes a lot of confidence in these days of NIL and the NCAA transfer portal to write a book called The Locker Room Is Not for Sale – giv...

Moira Redmond recently wrote about fortune tellers in her Clothes in Books blog , and that got me thinking about a two-book series by Doroth...

 It’s time for #6degrees, inspired by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best . We all start at the same place as other readers, add six boo...

Elizabeth Chadwick is an author I have enjoyed in the past but somehow I had not read any of her books since moving back to Boston, so she s...