sandra danby

Run to the Western Shore by Tim Pears is the mesmeric story of Olwen and Quintus as they run together across Wales, living off the land, heading westwards to the sea. Britain AD72. Given by her f...

https://sandradanby.com/2024/11/07/bookreview-run-to-the-western-shore-by-tim-pears-historical/

The Hidden Years by Rachel Hore is a dual-timeline story set in and around a Cornish country mansion, Silverwood, during World War Two and twenty years later. Events that occur in the Forties hav...

https://sandradanby.com/2024/10/31/bookreview-the-hidden-years-by-rachelhore-ww2-sixties/

Read in two sittings over a rainy weekend, I devoured Murder at Enderley Hall by Helena Dixon, second in the Miss Underhay cosy historical murder mysteries. Picking up a matter of weeks after the...

https://sandradanby.com/2024/10/25/bookreview-murder-at-enderley-hall-by-helena-dixon-nelldixon-cosymystery-crime/

Before reading Tombland by CJ Sansom I knew nothing about the English rebellions in 1549. What a magnificent series this is, so often emulated but rarely equalled. And how fitting that the final ...

https://sandradanby.com/2024/10/19/bookreview-tombland-by-cj-sansom-tudor-detective-crime/

Sisters Under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris tells the story of a group of women imprisoned in a Japanese camp in Indonesia during World War Two. Morris is a new author for me. I chose the book...

https://sandradanby.com/2024/10/12/bookreview-sisters-under-the-rising-sun-by-heather-morris-ww2/

Gregor and the Code of Claw is the fifth and final book in the Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins. From the first page there is no preamble, no explanation of the back story. If you’ve got...

https://sandradanby.com/2024/10/07/bookreview-gregor-and-the-code-of-claw-by-suzanne-collins-fantasy-adventure/

Lady Eleanor Swift, who has been a ‘lady’ for less than a year, is going on an elegant seaside holiday but is more used to travelling by bicycle in foreign climes. She doesn’t know what to ...

https://sandradanby.com/2024/10/02/bookreview-mystery-by-the-sea-by-brightverity-cosymystery-crime/

I’ve gone back to the beginning to read Dying in the Wool, first in the 1920s Kate Shackleton crime series by Frances Brody. What a joy it is to meet Kate for the first time, as the author inte...

https://sandradanby.com/2024/09/27/bookreview-dying-in-the-wool-by-francesbrody-crime/

It’s a rare occurrence for me to abandon a book, but I almost gave up on The Figurine by Victoria Hislop. I persevered through the glacial pacing of the first half and at 55% on my Kindle the s...

https://sandradanby.com/2024/09/22/bookreview-the-figurine-by-vichislop-greece-historical/

Enthralling from the first page to the last, The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier is by far the best novel I’ve read so far this year. It’s a heady mixture of beautiful glass, Venice in rich tim...

https://sandradanby.com/2024/09/16/bookreview-the-glassmaker-by-tracy_chevalier-historical-venice/