Category Archives: Kate Summerscale
The Queen of Whale Cay – Kate Summerscale
I would like to pretend that after having read ‘The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher’ I had popped Kate Summerscale’s first non-fiction novel ‘The Queen of Whale Cay’ onto my to be read list. That wouldn’t be true. In fact for … Continue reading
Filed under Books of 2011, Harper Collins, Kate Summerscale, Review
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher – Kate Summerscale
So I am on time for the second of the Richard & Judy Books of 2009, and it is the superb The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale. Nothing to do with the fact that I had in fact … Continue reading
Filed under Bloomsbury Publishing, Kate Summerscale, Review, Richard and Judy
The Richard & Judy Challenge
So it was announced this week what the Richard & Judy Books 2009 are. I have to say Amanda Ross (some people believe Richard & Judy have a say also, some don’t, I don’t comment) has chosen possibly the best … Continue reading
Collecting The Classics
Only six days into the New Year and I am going to have to edit one of my resolutions already. It was that tricky one of not really buying anymore books. I think what I should change it to ‘not … Continue reading
New Book Resolutions
First of all Happy New Year! It’s that time where we both look forward and look back and stock take isn’t it? At the beginning of last year when I start the blog properly one of the internal resolutions that … Continue reading
Filed under Book Thoughts, Kate Atkinson, Kate Summerscale, Lionel Shriver, Tess Gerritsen, Will Self
The Savidge Dozen
Blimey so a reading year is over… a year of some good reading, some difficult reading, some readers block plus some dire reading and some frankly amazing reading. In fact there was so much amazing reading I changed my mind … Continue reading
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher – Kate Summerscale
You know when you keep seeing a book and you pick it up four or five times in the space of a few weeks and you think you want it, people have said you should read it and you just … Continue reading
Filed under Bloomsbury Publishing, Books of 2008, Kate Summerscale, Review
