literary fiction

  • Z is for ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz…

    I was going to write this final post in the A to Z Challenge about Glasgow Zoo and the various small ‘zoos’ which existed all over the city in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but I am totally sick of the sound of my own voice and by. now, I’m sure I have sent…

  • The Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson

    Sisters Evangeline and Elizabeth have travelled to 1920s China with older and more experienced woman Millicent in order to undertake missionary work. Each sister has taken something with them that doesn’t seem to belong in their new life.

  • The Coward’s Tale by Vanessa Gebbie

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] ‘My name is Ianto Jenkins. I am a coward’ So starts The Coward’s Tale by Vanessa Gebbie, a book so magical and lyrical that even three weeks after finishing it, I ache to go and join the queue outside the cinema and listen again to the stories Ianto tells.