I love mysteries. Give me a book about somebody solving a crime and I’m as happy as a cat in a cardboard box. (My current favourites are the Peter Robinson Inspector Banks series and Val McDermid’s Carol Jordan and Tony Hill novels.) So I was really looking forward to this first in a string of …
Dunkirk – The Real Story in Photographs
After watching Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk on bluray for the second time – using the Pause button to try to understand just who did what and when – I wanted to find out what really happened. The film gives the impression that there was one crowded mole and a lot of empty beach. And yet …
A Death in Belmont
I’m not sure how to describe this. It’s not a history of the Boston Strangler murders in the early 1960s. It’s not an account of a – very likely – miscarriage of justice. Nor is it a personal memoir by the author, who was living near the scene of one of those murders when it …
Little Women
I’d always assumed that this story was one book. It isn’t. Or rather, the adventures of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy that appear in the three film versions I’ve seen (1933, 1994 and 2019) come from two books: Little Women and its sequel Good Wives. I’ve now read them both and – Well, what is …
