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Feminism is much in the news just now, with emphasis on
gender equality in the workplace, so Joanna Trollope’s novel is particularly
relevant, dealing as it does with the complex issues faced by women who have
both a career and domestic life. 
Trollope’s touch is light, but there can be no doubt about […]

Sparrows and starlings, peregrines and puffins, wrens,
warblers and waders – when and how did they all get their names?

Since he was a small boy, Stephen Moss has been a bird
lover. He inherited his mother’s love of the English language, studied English
at Cambridge
and made a study of bird poetry. […]

Whether she is describing the emotions of a dutiful daughter
of a temporarily dependent elderly mother, a successful businesswoman who finds
herself in the position of “the other woman,’’an immigrant worker hoping to make
a success of living in the UK, or a retired academic struggling to admit that
the work of younger […]

This hefty novel by a writer recognised as the master of legal fiction can hardly be termed a whodunnit,  as within the first 15 pages, we know the killer. He is Pete Banning, head of a Mississippi cotton growing family, war hero, regular church goer – an impeccable character […]

Amy is 44, happily married to Hugh, so is shattered when he
announces that he wants to take a break from her, the kids, his current life
and work.  He plans to go off to South East Asia for six months, on his own, but swears he
loves her and that he […]

Photography, specifically war photography is the dominating
theme of this book. A talented war photographer herself, Serena Stone has
followed in her father’s footsteps. When he dies, she takes on the task of
writing his story,

Her former lover, Zac North, is also a war photographer who
becomes “a dead man walking’’ following his […]