Wandering the world

Lucy Clarke has a first class degree in English Literature. I've read that she is a passionate traveller and diarist. Before taking up writing full time, Clarke worked as a presenter of social enterprise events and led creative writing workshops. She is married to James Cox, a professional windsurfer, and together they spend their winters travelling (ostensibly for research for her novels😉) and their summers at their home on the south coast of England. Until I found Lucy Cla

One can never have enough British thriller writers in one's reading diet and Gilly Macmillan is another I discovered recently. Macmillan studied Art History and was formerly a photographer before becoming a writer. She is now the author of eight thriller novels, including a detective series. I found Macmillan in my Kobo library subscription and have read three of her novels so far. Give them a go as I think Macmillan is a clever and accomplished writer who manages to unsettle

Lesley Kara is yet another British thriller writer whom I stumbled across recently. At the time of writing this post, there were four Kara books, published between 2019 and 2024. These books have placed Kara on the Sunday Times list of Top 10 psychological thriller authors. This post reviews two of those books, The apartment upstairs and The other tenant. I'd describe Kara as an understated thriller writer. In the two books I've read so far, there were no bonkers endings and

I've now read all five of the novels British contemporary fiction writer, Beth O'Leary, has written to date. This post covers three of her books. Check out my review of her other two, The no-show and The road trip. I love O'Leary's books! She's so unashamedly British and I love the eccentric band of characters in each of her books. Weighty subjects are tackled but they are balanced out with typical British charm and wit. O'Leary might be described as a chick lit writer, but