Book Review The Queens of Crime by Marie BenedictMystery | Historical Fiction Agatha Christie has long been one of my favourite authors. Her work evokes memories of my teen years, borrowing paperbacks from my mom’s Christie collection and trying to piece together “whodunnit” before Poirot or Miss Marple do. So, when I heard about Marie […]
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Book Review The Dark Library by Mary Anna EvansMystery | Historical Fiction | Gothic Secrets are rampant in the small town of Bentham-on-Hudson, but perhaps nowhere more so than Estella Ecker’s childhood home, Rockfall House. Returning home and taking up a teaching position at the local college, Estella searches for answers to her mother’s mysterious
Book Review The Resistance Painter by Kath JonathanHistorical Fiction | Dual Timeline Last year, two of my top historical reads for the year just happened to feature the Polish Resistance during WWII. The Warsaw Sisters by Amanda Barratt and The Keeper of the Hidden Books by Madeline Martin were both breathtaking and poignant, and opened
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Book Review How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty by Bonny ReichertMemoir | Culinary Do you ever try new books solely based on recommendations from other authors? How to Share an Egg first caught my eye thanks to the endorsement by Ruth Reichl (another culinary author I can’t get
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Book Review Follow Me to Africa by Penny HawHistorical Fiction I’ve absolutely adored Peggy Haw’s past books (The Invincible Miss Cust and The Woman at the Wheel) and was so excited to see another biographical fiction about an influential, and perhaps lesser-known, historical woman. Follow Me to Africa explores the life of Mary Leakey, a
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Book Review Dinosaurs Lift the Flap by Taffy TalesChildren’s Board Book | Flap Book For the past four years, we’ve had a bit of a dinosaur invasion happening at our house. With a four-year-old who is absolutely obsessed with dinos, the kids’ room is packed with Jurassic toys and reads. So when I saw this
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Book Review The Girls of the Glimmer Factory by Jennifer CoburnHistorical Fiction | WWII | Holocaust A couple of years ago, I stumbled across Jennifer Coburn’s novel Cradles of the Reich, a dark story centred around the Lebensborn maternity homes in Nazi Germany. The book has stuck with me to this day, and I can’t
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Book Review The Kennedy Girl by Julia Bryan ThomasHistorical Fiction When a mysterious stranger offers Mia a job modelling in Paris for the House of Rousseau, she takes a risk and sets off for what she hopes is a better life. But not everything is as it seems, and soon Mia finds herself pulled beyond
Book Review A Language of Dragons by S. F WilliamsonFantasy | YA | Historical Fiction Welcome to Bletchley Park… with dragons. It was this line alone that hooked me on this debut YA fantasy novel from S.F. Williamson. A genre-blending book set in London 1923, A Language of Dragons gives us an alternate-reality look into
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Book Review The Secret War of Julia Child by Diana R. ChambersHistorical Fiction | WWII We all know Julia Child. But what about Julia McWilliams — the thirty-year-old who took a job working for America’s first espionage agency in WWII? The woman she was before she met her husband, Paul Child, and before she mastered
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