Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's Roseanna (1967) Trans. Lois Roth Intro. Henning Mankell (2006) In the first book group I ever joined, all the women were abuzz with talk of this mystery series. I can't believe it's taken me this long to be officially introduced to Martin Beck. In turn, it takes
Rose Tremain's Sacred Country (1992) London: Sceptre – Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. I was thrilled with this book. So thrilled that, although I had read almost half of it before I lost track of it in a chaotic part of the year, I re-read that half willingly on a second
Judith Viorst’s It’s Hard to be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life New American Library, 1968 (Also published by Persephone Books, No. 12) When I was a girl, I used to pull Judith Viorst’s slim volumes off my mother’s bookshelves, but I was always disappointed. And, no
