‘Burning Bright’ by Tracy Chevalier

Chevalier is, of course, best known for ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’. I’ve still not read that, but have read various other books of hers and enjoyed them. So when I found this in a discount book store just before a trip away, I grabbed it for some good holiday reading.
The result wasn’t quite [...]

‘The Ruling Passion’ by David Pownall

I’ve had to give up on this, which was a shame as I really wanted to like it. It’s about a period of history that I know very little about – the death of King Edward I and the accession of his unpopular son Edward II – and all the blurbs raved about the [...]