or How I spent the best part of the week in bed. Covid really takes it out of you. What can you do except read. So read I did. I in fact took this book with me on holiday and brought it back unopened. Just as well as I would have been really stuck this […]Read Post ›
A great little book -humour, philosophy, romance, food. What more can you want in a novel?It just reminded me of a holiday we had in France many years ago, in 1989 in fact, when en route to the south we stayed one night in a Campanile in Vendome. There was no restaurant, so we asked […]Read Post ›
Couldn’t put it down. Better than the first Thursday Club, because it doesn’t spend so much time explaining who is who. I love Joyce and her self deprecating asides. Lovely Bogdan, the token Pole, has a smaller role to play here, but still twinkles blue eyes and tattoos when necessary. Chris, the fat policeman who […]Read Post ›
Not an easy book to read. I had to give up, start again, try again, a little at atime. It took me a long time to read. Too long maybe. And yet I was fascinated. The story apparently belongs to the coming of age genre. I’m not sure. It’s a bit of a mystery, bit […]Read Post ›
I bought this book because I could not find the one I actually wanted, “Future to Let,” which I started reading in a Polish translation in the Polish Weekly. “Future to Let” is being serialised, but I thought I couldn’t wait that long. Anyway, I prefer to read in English and it was originally written […]Read Post ›
By William Boyd Not his best book. Very funny in places and especially good when describing the scenery and weather. But the story is too far fetched and the set pieces don’t always quite work. Very unsatisfactory ending. But then I looked at when he wrote it and it was over thirty years ago. So […]Read Post ›
Life Through Basia's Eyes 