Book Reviews 2012 | Roseland Online

The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year by Sue Townsend

Eva takes to her bed. Fed up with cooking her husband’s dinner, caring for the house and mystified by her oddly introvert and super-intelligent 17 year old twins, Eva takes advantage of...

The King of Spain by Robert Ford

Sam takes up the offer of a job in Edge Hill, a retirement home in Sussex, where the residents have reached well beyond the usual lifespan. He leaves behind a life of...

The Obamas A True Story by Jodi Kantor

Published to coincide with the build-up to the US Presidential elections, Kantor writes of the Obamas living together as a family in The White House. It is a story of conflicts –...

A Guide to the Beasts of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson

The second book about “good old Mr Malik”, a follow up to A Guide to the Birds of East Africa. This time Mr Malik is mourning the loss of his son, preparing...

Dirty Little Secret by Jon Stock

In this, the third book in the Trilogy featuring MI6 agent Daniel Marchant and terrorist Salim Dhar, the action takes place in Afghanistan, Morocco, France and, less predictably, in rural England. It...

The Good Father by Diane Chamberlain

In North Carolina, Travis Brown is caring alone for his young daughter, Bella. Everything he does is focussed on providing for her safety and security. But when he loses his job and...

Here comes everybody: The Story of The Pogues by James Fearnley

Written by a key member of the Pogues whose music was described as “a furious, pioneering mix of punk energy, traditional melodies and the powerfully poetic songwriting of Shane MacGowan”, this is...

Disgrace by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Adler-Olsen’s second book featuring Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q (the Cold case division) and his delightfully unorthodox sidekick Assad, this is tipped to be as big as “The Killing” and “The...

Morgue Drawer Four by Jutta Profijt

Pascha/Sascha Lerchenberg is a corpse (or maybe a ghost), unappealing in life and not much mourned in death; Martin Gänsewein is an articulate, committed and hard working Coroner. For the majority of...

Three Thousand Miles for a Wish – Safiya Hussain

Ms Hussain writes of her life, from childhood, through her studies and early career as a lawyer and, most importantly her meeting with someone she thought of as the love of her...