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Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet reimagines the life of Shakespeare’s family, centring on the quiet domestic world that sits behind one of literature’s most famous names. The novel traces the events surrounding the death of Hamnet, Shakespeare’s young son, and the echoes of...
A woman washes up during a violent storm on a remote island that was once a research base but is now long abandoned except for its caretaker Dominic Salt and his three children. As Rowan is nursed back to health she begins to piece together what happened to the...
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans unfolds through letters, emails and notes, following the life of retiree Sybil Van Antwerp as she navigates her later years largely on her own terms. A firm believer in the written letter over modern forms of communication, Sybil’s...
Instead of posting separately, I thought I would talk out the two books I’ve read recently. My resolution for this year was to read more (more than I had the year previous) and I’m smashing that target. I didn’t watch a lot of television before hand but since I...