The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted: A Novel

India Today

Article

The Joys of Plenty | Books

Nov 15, 2019

When Ann Patchett finished an early draft of her latest novel, The Dutch House, she had set 150-odd pages of it in Calcutta. "India is fascinating to me and I had pictured that one-third of the book would take place there, and then it totally failed.

Woman's Weekly

Article

Great Reads

Apr 10, 2024

by Annie Murray (£8.99, PB, Pan Macmillan) The Chocolate Girls are back! It’s 1946 and war is over. In the final instalment of this gripping family saga, Ann Gilby’s husband Len has left her and she is finally free to follow her heart, though her div

Stylist

Article

A Genre-bending Must-read

Jul 12, 2022

cult classic by sloane crosley “Some of us get smaller denominations from the romance ATM that others,” ponders Lola, a 37-year-old New Yorker, who for various reasons has had about 15 five-month relationships. Now, just as she’s about to commit

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

Article

Storytime

Mar 23, 2022

In 1941 newlyweds Elle and Simon, and Elle’s ‘cousin’ (former boyfriend) Gabriel move to Lyra, population 400, off the coast of Georgia. Her Russian mother dead, her bankrupt father struck up a deal with wealthy jewel miner Simon, who was hiding his

Woman & Home

Article

March’s BOOK CLUB

Feb 1, 2024

The Painter’s Daughters by Emily Howes (£20, HB, Orion) It’s 1759 and the painter Thomas Gainsborough lives in Suffolk with his wife and daughters, Peggy and Molly. Best of friends, the sisters do everything together and Peggy keeps a close eye on Mo

Woman's Weekly

Article

Great Reads

Nov 1, 2023

by Sophie Hannah (£22, HB, HarperCollins) What better way for the famous Belgian detective to spend Christmas than by unravelling the murder of a man with seemingly no enemies? With help from new sidekick, Inspector Catchpool, the pair take up tempor

Woman's Weekly

Article

Book Club

Mar 10, 2021

Set in Cornwall in the winter of 1972, three lighthouse keepers seemingly vanish from a locked-on-the-inside tower 15 miles out to sea. But what really happened? Inspired by a true story, this beautifully written, gripping and haunting novel alternat

Woman & Home

Article

June’s BOOK CLUB

Apr 27, 2023

Mrs Porter Calling by AJ Pearce (£16.99, HB, Picador) Emmy Lake is back in the popular wartime series. In charge of a column at People’s Friend magazine, she’s proud of the part it plays in the war effort. But then entitled socialite Mrs Porter takes

Woman's Weekly

Article

Great Reads

Sep 20, 2023

by M.A. Kuzniar (£16.99, HB, HarperCollins) Loosely based on Swan Lake, this frosty, festive and fated fairy tale is sure to seduce you. As the first snowflake of winter falls on post-war London, invitations appear for the most talked-about party of

Woman's Weekly

Article

Book Club

Aug 3, 2022

by Elizabeth Noble (£14.99, HB, Penguin) When it comes to writing about family life, Elizabeth Noble is pitch-perfect, and her latest novel is no exception. In it we meet a group of friends who, having met at the nursery gate 20 years ago, have been

The Oldie

Article

Forgotten Authors

Jun 29, 2022

Lesley Blanch is probably best known now for her 1954 book The Wilder Shores of Love, which told the stories of four European women who left home in variously adventurous ways to live in the Middle East. As an assiduous self-mythologiser habitually c

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

Article

4 Decadent Memoirs

May 20, 2020

The first woman winner of the Archibald Prize in 1938 (the second, Judy Cassab, would not win until 1960); Heysen was a trailblazer in many fields. An army captain, she also became Australia’s first female official war artist in 1943. Daughter of Aus

Homes & Antiques

Article

Ask an Expert

Sep 16, 2020

I love this figurine and have had it for over 20 years. I am wondering if it is Korean and how old it might be. Any information you can give me would be great. Linda Price, Bridport Your figure is a 20th-century piece depicting the heroine from the

SFX

Article

Alix E Harrow

Oct 4, 2023

HOW DO YOU ENGAGE WITH SOUTHERN Gothic? Especially if, as in the case of Alix E Harrow, the very term takes makes you think of Toni Morrison, the Nobel-winning novelist whose Beloved drew on one of America’s richest literary traditions to explore the

History Revealed

Article

Q&A

Feb 20, 2020

Maggie O'Farrell is the author of eight novels and a memoir. Her 2016 novel This Must Be The Place was shortlisted for a Costa Book Award and two of her previous novels have won this prize. Hamnet is her first novel set pre-20th century. What inspir

The Australian Women's Weekly

Article

Storytime

Jul 14, 2021

A fearless but aromatic story of Maria Petrakis’ bakery in Harringay, London – the heart of the Greek Cypriot community who fled war in their homeland. Maria escaped a violent marriage, and daughter Katerina died, survived by round-bellied brother Co

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

Article

Storytime

Jul 14, 2021

A fearless but aromatic story of Maria Petrakis’ bakery in Harringay, London – the heart of the Greek Cypriot community who fled war in their homeland. Maria escaped a violent marriage, and daughter Katerina died, survived by round-bellied brother Co

Stylist

Article

A Darkly Funny Tale Of Envy And Ambition

May 16, 2023

Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang If you’ve ever felt jealousy invade a friendship, then this book will strike a chord with you. Writers June and Athena are friends but also rivals; Athena has a sparkling literary career – think glamorous New Yorker prof