A Paper Orchestra by Michael Jamin

An honest, sometimes excruciatingly so, collection of personal essays, which is also incredibly witty and made this reader laugh out loud

The Greater Good by Frank Sapienza

Frank Sapienza gives us a modern moral thriller about Dr Jon Morrison who is given a choice to help his son but at what ethical cost?

The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths

A Ruth Galloway mystery which is set at the start of the pandemic and which involves a number of mysterious deaths of women

Death in the Tallgrass by Donald Willerton

A gripping tale of discovery and redemption set in the early twentieth century America filled with treachery, tribes and tribulation

Dear Mrs Bird by A. J. Pearce

A nice novel about Emmy Lake, a young woman in the London Blitz, who decides to answer letters for an agony aunt who finds them Unacceptable

The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell

A great children’s book but more than that, a great story book, about Feo and her wolves, and fighting the enemy intent on her destruction

A Story Every Day in 2024 – a writing challenge

Could you write a story of 366 words or less every day in 2024? That is what this writer is attempting to do!

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

The story of Sam and Sadie principally, and a friendship that endures rifts and crises, set in the world of computer programming and gaming