Wandering the world

If you've read my other posts on Marian Keyes novels, you'll know that I have a fondness for the Irish writer despite her chick lit label. I've read all of the Walsh family saga and I am working my way through Keyes's standalone stories. Lucy Sullivan is getting married is the first standalone that Keyes penned, way back in 1996, and her second ever novel (the first being Watermelon in 1995, the inaugural Walsh family book). Why do I love Marian Keyes, as a self-confessed thr

There are currently 22 books in Sara Paretsky's iconic VI Warshawski series, published between 1982 and 2024. I've only read one other in the series - book 16. You can read my review of that book here. My stable of American authors is not as full as my British one, but I am warming to the VI Warshawski series after two books. I've come in at the end of the long-running series and VI is now around my age. That's enough to draw me in. Reading reviews of the later books suggest

I've read four of Gilly Macmillan's standalone novels. You can read my review of those books here. I am intrigued by the author as her books are cleverly constructed and her characters beautifully drawn, and so far I have not guessed what was going on. She takes seemingly ordinary people and situations and turns them into cracking stories. I recently read her first standalone, published in 2016. It's not as good as the other three I have read. Check out my thoughts on that b

I am a relatively new fan of Clare Mackintosh, having read the first two of her Ffion Morgan books and one of her standalone novels, an Idris Elba-like hijack story . I am working my way through the remaining four standalone novels, starting with After the end, the subject of this post. I was intrigued to read this one as it has personal meaning to Mackintosh after having lost one of her twin boys some years ago. I recommend you read the book with no prior knowledge of it as