Never has a title captured a book more perfectly. SUNSHINE SKETCHES OF A LITTLE TOWN! I found that sunshine in a small, tatty orange Penguin book, but it’s not at all photogenic, and so I went trawling for images and I was delighted to find that there’s a lovely smart new edition out there. I didn’t know who Stephen […]

The Other Typist is a wonderful entertainment, a real page-turner, set in 1920s New York, in the age of prohibition. Rose Baker tells the story. She was raised in a convent and had to make her own way in the world. She worked for the police, as stenographer and typist; she rented a room in […]