Book Reviews 2011 | Roseland Online

The Food Hospital by Dr Gio Miletto, Lucy Jones and Dr Shaw Somers

Subtitled “Simple, Delicious Recipes For A Healthy Life”, and linked to the current Channel 4 series of the same name, this book aims to explain how food can enhance health and offers...

Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories by John Mortimer

Fourteen stories, out of almost eighty written between 1978 and 2004, represent “the best” of Rumpole’s career. As a bonus there are the six pages from the novel Mortimer was working on...

Simon’s Cat in Kitten Chaos by Simon Tofield

Since the initial film Cat Man Do, which grew out of testing new software and quickly achieved a cult following, a further 15 films have been added to Simon Tofield’s website www.simonscat.com....

When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman

In a book which reads like an autobiography, we learn of Elly’s life from her birth in the late 1960s through her teenage years and beyond, from the suburbs to rural Cornwall...

I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg

By the writer of ‘Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café’, this is the story of Maggie Fortenberry’s plan to end it all – neatly and thoughtfully, just like she has...

Other People’s Money by Justin Cartwright

Sir Harry Trevelyan-Tubal is dying in his opulent Mediterranean villa, attended by his devoted secretary, while his much younger wife is cavorting with a South African personal trainer in London. Meanwhile, his...

You’ve Gone Too Far This Time, Sir! By Danny Bent

Danny Bent cycled 15,000 kilometres from the UK across Europe, the former Soviet Republic, Russia, China and Pakistan to raise money for ActionAid, and take up a teaching post in India. This...

Tremanyon – A shadow falls by Carol Symons

Based on the Roseland, and written by an author with local connections, this is the story of Richard Tremayne and his family, their lives and those of the staff in their newly...

I’ll be there by Holly Goldberg Sloan

The story of Emily and Sam, from their first connection when she sings in the church choir through to… well, I won’t spoil it for you. Sam loves music; Emily can’t sing....

Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Mercy was a no.1 bestseller in Denmark, selling 3 million copies and winning Best Nordic Crime Thriller, an honour previously awarded to books by Nesbo, Larsson and Mankell. The story of Carl...