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40% off books in stock* – today only A little help with your Christmas shopping! Scroll down for your discount code and further details and then browse our website. Use the code 40Nov2025 at the checkout for a 40% discount on our book prices on Saturday 29th November only. There is no minimum purchase and no limit to
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As my Typead blog has dispppeared I will be republishing a few of my favourite blogs. This, from 2009, is a reflection on food, books and family history made more poignant now, in the run up to Christmas, because Mum is no longer able to make the cake of my childhood. …their mother worked out
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There’s very little Martin Edwards doesn’t know about crime fiction. He has been writing since the 1990s, starting with the excellent Liverpool based Harry Devlin series. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of Golden Age detective fiction and much of what came before and after too. Like a good architectural historian he knows what makes a
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A review by Connie Hawley Having already dipped a toe into the works of V. E. Schwab with This Savage Song (2016) I went into the world of Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil with high hopes, and was not disappointed. At over 500 pages this is not a short novel, but despite my
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As my Typead blog has dispppeared I will be republishing a few of my favourite blogs. This, from 2024, is a reflection on one of the books I was lucky enough to own for a few months. One of the lovely things about being the temporary owners of thousands of books, as they pass through
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Old Baggage, Crooked Heart, V for Victory is the most charming and moving trilogy. Crooked Heart was written first and this book and the next feature Noel, a small boy becoming a teenager across the books. His parentage is obscure, especially to him, and he is adrift in the world. Piercingly intelligent, he has taught
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As my Typead blog has dispppeared I will be republishing a few of my favourite blogs. This is another of my earlier reviews. High Wages by Dorothy Whipple is a charming story of a woman in the ‘man’s world of women’s clothing’, as Jane Brocket puts it in the introduction to the Persephone edition. Set in
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As my Typead blog has dispppeared I will be republishing a few of my favourite blogs. This, from 2009, is another of my earlier reviews. Since this review Alis Hawkins has written two excellent mystery series, the Teifi Valley Coroner and the Oxford Mysteries, both set in the nineteenth century. Testament by Alis Hawkins is sensationally good
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As my Typead blog has dispppeared I will be republishing a few of my favourite blogs. This, from 2020, is a review of the first in series by one of my favourite authors. The series now extends to five novels with latest Hemlock Bay recently out in paperback. Whenever I pick up a historical novel,
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As my Typead blog has dispppeared I will be republishing a few of my favourite blogs. This, from 2010, is another of my earlier reviews. I find it very hard when handling my book stock not to get caught up with reading sometimes! On this occasion the book I couldn’t put down was A Childhood in
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