Laura Kinsale, Flowers From The Storm - pretty good romance, B ( Read more... )

Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice - this has been much praised, and it was well written and mildly interesting, but I just wasn’t engaged with the characters or convinced by the plot, B minus; Ancillary Sword - much the same ( Read more... )

June 2016 ( Read more... )

Peter Robinson, No Cure For Love - solid if slightly dated thriller, B ( Read more... )

Donna Thorland, The Rebel Pirate - good, but not as good or as challenging as her first book, B ( Read more... )

Carrie Vaughn, Kitty Raises Hell, OK, B ( Read more... )

Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut’s Windlass - quite good, B ( Read more... )

Anthony Trollope, The Two Heroines Of Plumplington - a slight but charmingly Christmassy tale, A ( Read more... )

Henry Cecil, Daughters In Law - light amusing comedy which I enjoyed, B ( Read more... )

The last couple of weeks I’ve been working on coroners’ records from the 1930s/40s. Here’s what I’ve learned ( Read more... )