Book Review: Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg

Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg My rating: 4 of 5 stars A lover told me to read this. A lover just like Anne. Sophisticated. Unattainable. Impossibly beautiful. I desisted for a while. Months. Read it, she said. “Read it. You’re all over it.” Now I have read it and I understand why this book…

Book Review: The Great Stink by Clare Clark

The Great Stink by Clare Clark My rating: 5 of 5 stars “In the rotting and inadequate sewers, human excrement mixed with refuse from the slaughterhouses and knacker’s yards and waste from the tanneries and factories. Every day it drained into the Thames. it was not long before the river itself became the great cesspool…

Book Review: The Meaning Of Night by Michael Cox

The Meaning Of Night by Michael Cox My rating: 4 of 5 stars Imagine you find a book that promises to keep you company a few days – being a 700-page tome – and it does more than that. It occupies your days and nights. It aids you in the disgusting addiction of nail-biting to…