Caro's Bookcase

Joanna Miller’s debut novel, The Eights , was an absolute treat. I found myself trying to spin out the time I got to spend with these four ...

I fell in love with High Wages from the first line. “Jane Carter had come to Tidsley on her half-day off to look at the shops, but she look...

Elizabeth von Arnim’s 1921 novel, Vera , is unlike anything else I have read by her. I’ve heard it suggested that it may have inspired Daphn...

One genre I don’t read often is memoir. I say that like I do read a lot from every other genre, which would be a bit of an exaggeration. All...

Is it too early to claim I have just read a book that will be among my top ten of the year? Don’t bother answering that. It has already been...