Book Review: The Anchoress
This interesting historical tale of a religious recluse is surprisingly sensuous and thrilling. The anchoress is a religious recluse in medieval England, a 17 year old woman who willingly allows herself to be locked inside the church anchorhold. This is a stone cell attached to the church that has a squint for her to see…
Book Review: Drowned Vanilla
Drowned Vanilla is a deliciously intriguing Tasmanian tale of missing girls and murder. A young woman drowns in a lake, a beautiful student disappears, and unlikely amateur sleuth Tabitha Darling and her friends set out to investigate. I grew up in Tasmania, and this novel’s setting in the sandstone lined streets of Hobart and its beautiful…
Review – The Burial by Courtney Collins
This is a great example of what I love about first novels. An effortless yet powerful, completely original, risky yet beautifully engaging, and shining with poetic descriptions. There is nothing quite like this story. The Burial by Courtney Collins, Or The Untold, as it is known as in the USA, is the story of a young woman…
Six Degrees of Separation
How To Be a Good Wife author Emma Chapman emailed me last week to invite me to join in a new meme she has begun with her friend, author Annabel Smith. The new series on their blog is called Six Degrees of Separation, based on Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy’s 1929 short story ‘Chains’ in…