Review: Meet Me at the Surface

Fiona Grant reviews a dark and haunting new novel by Jodie Matthews, now in paperback. A strangely enthralling read; wonderfully descriptive language tells a story, set in a Cornish landscape of moors and small towns, of love and grief and motherhood, but always with an edge of something darker, something unknown, otherworldly.  Jodie Mathews knits […]

Review: Wildly Different

Fiona Grant reviews Wildly Different: How Five Women Reclaimed Nature in a Man’s World A vivid recounting of the lives of five remarkable women, who rebelled against convention, prejudice and misogyny in order to explore, record and fight to protect the wild places throughout the world during the twentieth century.  Using first hand accounts from those […]

Review: The King’s Witches

Fiona Grant reviews a gripping new novel by Kate Foster, now in paperback. It is thought that between 1400 and 1782 40-60,000 people, mostly women over the age of 40, were put to death on charges or suspicion of witchcraft.   Against this background, but focusing on the North Berwick witch trials of 1590, this novel […]