TSS: A personal selection for world book night (Giveaway)

I’m spending the weekend and some of next week dashing back and forth from the Mitchell Library in Glasgow.  It’s Ayewrite! time again and this year the programme is really exciting.  In fact, I am actually hyperventilating about one particular event to come.  Stories to follow in due course. Of course, the dates clash with World Book Night.   I am [...]

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The Existential Detective – Alice Thompson

Bear with me for a minute – you’re not in the wrong review, I promise. Holiday reading = crime fiction and so I recently read the novel that T.S Eliot proclaimed “the first and the best detective novel” – Wilkie Collin’s The Moonstone. A review may be forthcoming at a later date, so I’ll reveal only that I did find myself [...]

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TSS: Novellas for November

When Bibliofreak launched her latest challenge, I’m sure she was unaware of  Lizzy’s love of alliteration. Short story September is now a permanent fixture in my reading calendar.  Novella November is likely to become as irresistible. I find novellas intensely satisfying.  Long enough to lose yourself in but short enough not to get repetitive. I’m still [...]

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The Falconer – Alice Thompson

When her younger sister, Daphne,  commits suicide, Iris Tennant successfully applies, under a pseudonym,  for the job of personal assistant to Lord Melfort, the Under-Secretary of War.  This takes her to his estate in the Scottish Highlands and to the place of her sister’s death, where she encounters a intricate net of sibling rivalry, sexual jealousy and political treachery. [...]

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