Books

June 24, 2019• Books

Then She Vanishes by Claire Douglas

A mystery about secrets and families set in the West Country. It seems like an open and shut case. Heather has been seen walking into a...

May 20, 2019• Books

Anna is living a double life; a true crime podcast is exploring the sinking of a luxury yacht. How are these two things linked? That’s...

May 20, 2019• Books

This is the first work I’ve read by the Arthur C Clarke winning Adrian Tchaikovsky. It’s a novella told in the first person about a...

April 18, 2019• Books

This book captures the fascinating world of a remote sheep farmer in Iceland. Heida (or more properly Heiða) is a sheep farmer who...

March 21, 2019• Books

Having recently read and enjoyed The Absolution, the third in the ‘Freyja and Huldur’ series, I returned to the first book...

March 14, 2019• Books

It’s 1988, many years before the events recounted in the first of the Hidden Iceland trilogy, The Darkness. A pair of teenagers have...

March 14, 2019• Books

Following on from the latest Yrsa Sigurðardóttir novel, I thought I’d stay in Iceland and catch up with Ragnar Jónasson who...

March 11, 2019• Books

The Absolution is the third in the “Children’s House” series of books from one if Iceland’s leading crime writers. A...

March 1, 2019• Books

It’s the early 1980s and our narrator, Lizzie Vogel, is about to leave home for the first time, and move from her village into the city...

February 22, 2019• Books

I picked up a copy of Walking in Berlin over Christmas having become fascinated by the period after reading the first couple of Volker...