Category: Books

J.D. Missen’s Holmhill Farm brings crime, the 1953 flood and a completely fictional Versey ancestor together in a mystery rooted firmly in Felixstowe.

Steffan Piper’s Come Up Screaming is a coming-of-age story set in 1980s Felixstowe. For me, though, it was considerably more dangerous: I know the streets, the house and some of the people behind the fiction.

Eight books across July and August: Fleetwood Mac, Roy of the Rovers, crime, thrillers, middle age and a murderous grandma. A quiet couple of months by Verso standards.

Twelve books and 4,996 pages in June, including crime thrillers, memoirs and biographies—and one novel that completely caught me off guard.

Eight books from May, ranging from crime and time travel to Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks and deeply questionable workplace culture.

Nine books from April, with crime, thrillers and an assortment of memorable characters across another strong reading month.

March brought a mixed reading month of time travel, murder, doomed relationships and people making consistently poor decisions.

Six books from February, featuring small-town mysteries, suspicious influencers, dysfunctional families and plenty of fictional bodies.

Six books and 1,880 pages in January, with crime fiction, time travel, a heist and an ever-growing trail of fictional bodies.

Meet Felixstowe author Melanie Green, whose candid cancer memoir and guided journal offer honesty, humour and practical support to others.