Wandering the world

Australian novelist, Kelly Rimmer, takes real stories and events and weaves them into historical novels, set during and just after WW2. Her research is meticulous, and she does a great job of evoking the time period. I've also read Rimmer's The Paris agent , based on the lives of two women who were part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France during the war. The German wife | Published June 2022 | Read September 2023 The German wife  is loosely based on the life o

Jack Reacher is my reading guilty pleasure. I've read all of the books in the series by Lee Child, and I look forward to each new instalment. Yes, they are formulaic, but there's something satisfying about a series that sticks to what it does best. Reacher is like an old friend to me now. He breezes into someone's life (with his toothbrush and single set of clothes😆) and dispatches the bad guys before heading off to save the day somewhere else. He does all that with his usua

I'd seen Gillian McAllister's books at my local library, but her 2022 novel is the first one I've read. McAllister is a British author of seven bestselling novels to date, several of which have been optioned for film and television. She has a degree in English from the University of Birmingham and a law degree, and previously worked as a solicitor before switching to writing full time. Update: I've since read a second McAllister book, Just another missing person.   Wrong plac

British author, Jojo Moyes, has an extensive catalogue of contemporary novels and historical fiction. Moyes was a journalist with The Independent for 10 years and has been writing novels since 2001. I've reviewed one of Moyes's historical novels, The giver of stars, in a separate post. I loved that book, as the kick-ass librarians outshone the touches of romance fiction. You can also check out my review of Someone else's shoes, Moyes's contemporary novel that started my jou