Ruth Pirrett

Ruth Pirrett is a former Readings Hawthorn bookseller

Review — 24 Aug 2014

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

Somewhere between novel and autobiography, My Family and Other Animals is the story of 10-year-old nature enthusiast Gerald Durrell and his family’s four-year migration from England to Corfu in the…

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Review — 24 Aug 2014

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

Set in London in 1922 – a city still reeling after World War I and in the midst of a rapidly transforming social order – Sarah Waters’s sixth novel addresses…

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