The Forty Rules Of Love by Elif Shafak
If you want to be transported to another world, another place and another time (and let’s face it, don’t we all want that at the moment?!), then @shafakelif is the au
The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
A monumental book befitting yesterday’s monumental day across the pond. The Prophets is the story of Samuel and Isaiah, slaves and soulmates on the Halifax Plantation in Mississi
A Discovery Of Witches by Deborah Harkness
LOCKDOWN RECOMMENDATIONS Welcome to one of my literary safety blankets – books that I keep on coming back to. When I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 2011 I found myse
The Decameron, Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh, Dangerous Liaisons & The Book Of A Courtier
Classical Offerings with a modern twist. My favourite classics always remind me that people are intrinsically the same. We live utterly different lives from those hundreds of years
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
F R I D A Y F A V O U R I T E A copy is always by my bed (note the torrid state of my first version). Initially frustrating — too many Henrys and ambiguity in dialogue, I persist
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
R E V I E W — H A M N E T Hamnet, Oh Hamnet, you absolute beaut of a book — inside and out. I am a reader who sometimes struggles with fictional accounts of real people as I of