Category: Book Review

In My House turned out to be not the book any of us were expecting. At the start  Maggie is returning from holiday and as she is walking through Gatwick, a young woman approaches her and whispers a single word: Read More …

  We were all agreed that Ship of Brides was an easy read – and we had all learnt to our surprise that alongside women from Great Britain travelling to the States to join their GI husbands there had been Read More …

  The Humans is billed as a humorous science fiction tale reveals what it is to be human. Although it is a story of alien invasion it seems more like magical realism. The starting point is that an alien, who Read More …

The Brave, by Nicholas Evans   The Blurb: The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is ‘Fortune Favours the Brave’. It’s 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, Read More …

  ‘More fool me’ is the 3rd volume of autobiography by Stephen Fry. The first two cover his childhood, teenage and university years, so this picks up the story in the late 1980s and early 90s as his career really Read More …

  On the surface this book by Gavin Extence was  light-hearted. It started with a bang wanting to make you read on, although that first chapter also gave away where the book was heading which was towards the much heavier theme Read More …

  Paula Hawkins’ debut novel is a psychological thriller, which shot to the top of the bestseller lists in January of this year. The central character, Rachel, commutes into London each day, and a regular stop at a signal allows her Read More …

Burial rites by Hannah Kent Collected thoughts from the Book Club 09/07/2015 Burial rites is set in 19th century Iceland and is a fictional account of the true story of Agnes Magnusdottir, the last woman to be publicly beheaded in Read More …

‘Small Island’ is set in 1948, and focuses on the experience of Jamaican immigrants who, have left the Caribbean for what they hope will be a better life in England, the “Mother Country” for which the men have fought during Read More …

Wild: a journey from lost to found by Cheryl Strayed Collected thoughts from the Book Club 01/05/2015 This is a deeply personal and honest account of Cheryl Strayed’s 1,100 hike alone up the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert Read More …

Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling) was enjoying positive reviews from professional critics accompanied by modest sales for his ‘first’ novel. However once the true identity of the author was revealed the book leapt up into the best sellers lists. J.K. Read More …