Pagan Britain and The Witch by Ronald Hutton are both drenched in detail and expertise. Read my review here.

The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal is Dervla Murphy's account of her time spent living with Tibetan refugees. Read my review here.

The publication of this book about what happened to the wealth of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas Romanov, came at an interesting point in

One of our family ended up with a pre-loved double volume of Michael Crichton novels last Christmas as a gift, so I took a look at it.

Years ago, I stumbled upon this book in our town's bookshop. That was back in the days before Amazon became the go-to place to buy a book.

If you're reading this and thinking, 'Susan Coolidge? Didn't she write the What Katy Did series I remember from when I was a kid?' then you'