Author: Diana Courtney-Smith

Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum My rating: 5 of 5 stars 99% of the time I read fiction. I enjoy getting lost in other people’s worlds and words and non-fiction doesn’t usually give me the same sense of “otherness”. This book reads like fiction – the larger than life…

The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier My rating: 5 of 5 stars It’s rare that I give a book 5 stars but this one ticked all the boxes for me, as a splendid example of a gothic ghost story. Molly and Kip, two siblings who have fled Ireland during the Great Famine, have lost their…