Litrefs Reviews
Saturday, 16 May 2026
"Martha Quest" by Doris Lessing (Panther Books, 1966)
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Africa. 1930s. Martha Quest's 3rd-person PoV, though we dip into various heads. She's 15. Her younger brother Jonathan's not as ...
Friday, 15 May 2026
"The Glass Girl" by Kathleen Glasgow
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An audio book. Bella, 15, has a sister, Ricky, 7. Her ex Dylan dumped her. Her grandma died less than a year before. Bella blames herself ...
Thursday, 14 May 2026
"Northanger Abbey" by Val McDermid
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An audio book. Catherine Morland, 17, from Dorset, home-schooled, is invited to accompany well-off neighbours to the Edinburgh festival whe...
Wednesday, 13 May 2026
"Touchy Subjects" by Emma Donoghue
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An audio book of stories. Touchy Subjects - Sarah, 38, flies from Seattle to a Dublin hotel to meet her friend's husband Paudrig. H...
Tuesday, 12 May 2026
"The Penguin book of modern British short stories" by Malcolm Bradbury (ed) (Penguin, 1988)
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From Bradbury's introduction - " The modern short story has therefore been distinguished by its break away from anecdote, tale-...
Monday, 11 May 2026
"Light year" by Jennifer Wong (Nine Arches Press, 2025)
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Poems from Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Finished Creatures, etc. In the poem "Light Year" I have trouble with - " Eve...
Sunday, 10 May 2026
"Identity Unknown" by Patricia Cornwell
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An audio book. Kay Scarpetta (her first-person PoV) is a coroner. Kay has an Irish secretary and a husband, Ben. Elvin, the person Kay repl...
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