Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything. Penguin, 2024. First published 2024. Those who haven’t read the numerous previous novels by Elizabeth Strout in which the central characters in Tell Me Everything also appear will probably miss some of the nuances in … Continue reading → The post Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
I first heard of The Deadly Percheron (1946), John Franklin Bardin’s debut novel of identity and madness, when Anthony Horowitz called it his favourite crime novel in an interview (which I’ve been unable to find, so [citation needed] that for now). And then Kate loved it and Brad loved it and so, with this Penguin … Continue reading #1323: The Deadly Percheron (1946) by John Franklin Bardin| The Invisible Event
Throughout the latter part of the morning buggies kept turning in from the highway and wheeling up the quarter-mile of elm-arched drive to the farm – surreys and democrat wagons, an occasiona…| This Reading Life
2025 is the ninetieth anniversary of the launch of Penguin Books one of the UK’s most enduring and successful publishers. From the outset Penguin was synonymous with its branding with their considered logos, fonts and most vividly their colour coded series – orange for fiction, green for crime fiction, dark blue for biography and so on.[1] Sought after as much for the look as the content, books published by Penguin from the mid 1930s until the early 1970s are icons of British book design.| National Library of Scotland Blog
I read my first Anita Brookner in 2020, the superb Look at Me, a book that found a place on My Best Books of 2020 list, but for some inexplicable reason I haven’t read more of her work since. To co…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Shirley Ballas. Richard Coles. Susie Dent. Richard Osman. Robert Rinder. These days, if you want to publish a crime novel, it clearly helps to be a UK media personality. And why not? Publishing&…| The Invisible Event