The Other Mrs Walker by Mary Paulson-Ellis
The Other Mrs Walker by Mary Paulson-Ellis is detective fiction without the detective. Read my full review at John C Adams Reviews.
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence is a literary masterpiece from American author Edith Wharton set in the New York of the 1870s. Read my review here.
Summer by Edith Wharton
Summer by Edith Wharton takes the reader far from society New York. Read my full review at John C Adams Reviews.
The Years by Virginia Woolf
'The Years' is once again a very realistic, natural novel about people and their feelings.
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
t is a truth universally acknowledged that a young lady of good breeding must be in want of a goblin. I'm just kidding. As far as I know...
A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin
This groundbreaking novel presented a female character as capable of taking pleasure from sex without love in a way more often associated
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
This novel was published in 1818 when its author was 20, and it was inspired by her visits to Germany and Switzerland. So far, so typical...
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
This incredibly short novel is a mere one hundred and twenty pages yet it packs in striking characterisation and vivid setting.
Ho, Ho, Ho: Christmas in Horror Fiction
There's no better moment to remember how Christmas, its precursor Yule and the Celtic Midwinter events in general feature in horror fiction.
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
I'll start this 'Monday Musings' from John C Adams Reviews by mentioning that the premise of 'Pale Fire' is very simple.