Old open book with magic light and falling stars on wooden table

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

This is a book I need on my shelf. To dip in to. Whenever I feel the urge to nip back to North Carolina. To go for a ride in an old boat along a river in an overgrown marsh.

Old open book with magic light and falling stars on wooden table

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

Facing the increasingly disapproving scrutiny of their families and neighbours from two judgemental communities, both protagonists must re-examine the important things in their lives, and ask themselves: which lines should be crossed and which must not?

Old open book with magic light and falling stars on wooden table

Mary Poppins & Saving Mr. Banks

Walt Disney personally invested a good deal of time and effort in persuading the highly reluctant Mrs Travers to allow him to make her plainly illustrated book into a major Technicolor film