June 2025
Jenny Colgan has written The Christmas Bookshop a love letter to Scottish winters! It is the loveliest love story about community and bookshops. I just loved this story and think it will make a great cosy June read!
I loved The Frozen River, by Ariel Lawhon. Set in 1780s Maine it follows Martha a wife, mother and midwife. I enjoyed reading about the births, how much has changed and what has stayed the same. What I really appreciated in this novel was the adult relationships, the love a wife has for a long-term husband and a mother has for her adult children.
I adore The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. It’s a classic for a reason. I was sure I wouldn’t enjoy it as an adult, but I enjoyed it so much I read the whole series! CS Lewis has written a masterpiece with this novel.
Dervla McTiernan has gifted us anther Cormac Reilly novel, and I was beside myself reading it. I have read, and loved the series but I think it would work just as well as a standalone novel. The Unquiet Grave has bog bodies, a serial killer and a lottery heist and you had better believe these characters are wearing big jackets and multiple pairs of socks; it is cold, wet and miserable in this novel.
The Wolf Tree is another very atmospheric novel, thriller of a story set off the Scottish coast. It was so clever and such a page turner. I loved this debut by Australian author Laura McCluskey.